Simply visiting a site shouldn't install spyware. I can't believe I missed this before... this is UNTRUE. Please don't think you are safe by believing that you can prevent spyware by clicking "no, don't install". Too many companies take advantage of IE's security flaws- an unpatched computer can have spyware and viruses automatically downloaded and installed by the use of "DSO Exploit" code. And other companies may swap out their "safe" banner for an "exploit" banner... and only the non-patched IE-users would be hit. These companies think it's good marketing to bombard a user with spyware to sell their "spyware removal" programs. This is exactly what happened to me- one day while I was reading my Yahoo mail, I was bombarded with viruses and spyware. On the other hand, both Firefox and Opera do NOT have these security flaws- they may have their own flaws, but hackers only seem to be coding hacks for IE. --John

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