[arachne] Re: User-friendliness or lack thereof in Arachne

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It occured to me again that this sounds like I'm an advocate for windows. Truth is it isn't in my top 10 favorite OSs. Maybe not even in the top 20. So I'm not doing that. Just pointing out that although IE isn't a browser I relish, you needn't get viruses, trojans or popups when you use it. I'd say the ratio of popups I get using firefox on windows is similar to IE + google toolbar. Some, but very few.

As for 'most people' getting them when using ie... most people never defrag a windows harddrive either. And I don't think the people in this group are in the category of 'most people' when it comes to computing habits. Defragging! another reason I avoid windows.

No fooling. There are at least 5 people I know who were going to replace a perfectly good and reasonably fast windows pc because it was too slow. In each case, I defragged, installed avg antivirus, ran spybot search and destroy, zonealarm firewall, and google toolbar. They all were amazed at the difference and decided their machines weren't so slow after all. Now they defrag every couple weeks and all seem content.

The point is while windows has many things we all don't like, a little care can make a big difference.

Jason Dodd wrote:

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Well, google's popup blocker works good for me. I get very, very few popups using it. Of course you need to run anti spyware/virus software but that's more a windows issue than browser. I don't use windows at home but I haven't had anyone report to me that the combination of the blocker, firewall, and antivirus software has let them down.

Eric S. Emerson wrote: 



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