stonemason opened this issue on Nov 10, 2004 ยท 24 posts
Ben_Dover posted Thu, 11 November 2004 at 1:12 AM
Already done Elizabyte, thanks for the warning though.
I had already read up on the (supposed worse) security issue with 0.9 so I just held out for 1.0. After being scrod (past tense of screwed) by IE early this year I switched to Firefox and never looked back. In the course of about two weeks I picked up two hijacks and a virus while surfing with IE, which left every exe (including all my Daz purchases!) infected and nonusable without propagating the virus.
I also switched to Thunderbird for email (which is available at v0.9 currently....and kicks ass) and haven't regretted it a bit.
Incidentally the only app that could neutralize the damaged exe's (except the archives and Daz installers) was Panda. Every other AV app I tried/demo'd wanted to delete the file or "quarantine" them. So, for what it's worth, I purchased Panda Internet Security antivirus/firewall/anti-hijack and upgraded my hardware firewall due to that incident. Oh, I had to purchase a couple CD burns from Daz too. lol
I now get a clean report from ShieldsUp and sleep much easier. ;)
/end thread hijack