"I must be the only person in these forums who not only actually likes Microsoft products, but has never had a problem with them." Actually, no. I use IE and have for years with no problem. I use sensible precautions (spybot, Adaware, Antivir, Zone Alarm and the Google Toolbar's excellent pop-up blocker), and believe me, I visit some of the web's seamier underbelly at times. I tried FireFox but personally, I couldn't find a compelling reason to switch. The tabbed windows were available for IE years ago as an add-on, it loads slower on my system and browsing isn't any faster. The only thing I found that works better is the text enlarging feature. As for ZA, you can set it not to warn you of every intrusion attempt and it will do it's job silently.

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