Jay T. Blocksom <not.deliverable+usenet02@appropriate-tech.net> wrote in
news:7tuq41trcrcb48h2ki1i64i1fen1r5j7if@news.speak easy.net:

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:28:38 -0600, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "Lil'
> Abner"
><blvstk@dogpatch.com> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
>
> > But in Internet Explorer, it puts on a show you'll never forget. The
> > only way I could stop it was by killing IExplore in Task Manager,
> > and Task Manager didn't want to come up very bad. It's unending
> > popups, and really fast. I thought I was pretty well protected, but
> > not against that!
>
> 1. - You've allowed MSIE to remain installed on your system
> 2. - You're actually *running* MSIE.
> 3. - You're actually running MSIE with pop-ups, Java**** and/or
> ActiveXploit
> enabled.
>
> Yet, for some completely unfathomable reason, you "thought [you were]
> pretty well protected"...?!?

I don't run IE... never ever. I just had to try it this once to see what
I was missing. But I figured with Spybot's "immunization" and a 231 kb
hosts file, and whatever spywareblaster does, that maybe I'd escape
anything drastic. The patch someone mentioned above didn't help either.

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