Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Me Here wrote:
>
>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> Me Here wrote:
>>>> ... Many malware sites scan and remove their listings from hosts
>>>> files (and even locking it via the read-only attribute won't
>>>> protect you).
>>> What? You are gonna have to find reliable cites for that nonsense.
>> Oh, just so I don't get the wrong idea - are you saying that malware
>> can't change the hosts file or that you've never heard of it being
>> done?
>
> And just so you don't think I have no knowledge of the subject, I'm
> saying that your statement "Many malware sites ..." [I assume that means
> web sites] is false.

It's not false. You obviously have a problem with either reading or
English. If malware sites couldn't do anything to your computer, why
the hell are browser companies so worried about security now-a-days? Of
course malware sites can effect your computer.

Micha is right though, a properly secured browser reduces the chances of
this happening quite significantly.

As for ActiveX, only a fool runs that crap. Worst nightmare MS ever
introduced into the internet (IMHO).



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not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade
Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they
came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And
when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."