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Sun, 4 Jul 2004 04:36:31 -0700
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Anybody know anything about the Links browser? I
learned about it when I took the Hadley School's
on-line Internet basics course, supposed to be
designed for us, text based, but I never hear about
it.
73 and happy 4th
Shawn
--- Louis Kim Kline <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi John.
>
> I am running the Norton Internet Security package
> and Ad Aware to scan for
> spyware.  For some reason, I have never been able to
> get Spybot to install
> on this machine.
>
> Anyway,  the methods for attacking systems has
> gotten more sophisticated in
> the last few months, and I no longer completely
> trust Norton to completely
> keep everything out.  What I am trying to figure out
> is whether or not
> there are any other web browsers that are
> accessible.  Obviously most of
> the development for JFW and Window-Eyes have been
> centered around Microsoft
> Active Accessibility and Internet Explorer.
> Frankly, Microsoft has
> promised better security and better stability with
> every operating system
> they've released, and it hasn't happened yet, and I
> frankly doubt it ever
> will.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
> At 02:51 PM 7/3/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >A good virus program is the best way to go and spy
> ware program, and a
> >firewall, you get them, and keep them up to date,
> you'll be as well off if
> >not better then going to another company's program
> since you really in this
> >day and age shouldn't be with out those kind of
> things anyway to be on the
> >internet and be smart about it especially with
> broadband connections or if
> >you're on a lot, but really everyone should keep
> those up to date and on.
> >Beyond that I can't help you since I can't use
> Eudora because I have 2
> >accounts on Comcast and it won't check them both at
> the same time due to
> >some idiocy on some one's part, and have never
> tried anything besides
> >internet explorer.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 2:12 PM
> >Subject: Speech and the Internet
> >
> >
> > > Hi folks.
> > >
> > > I am frankly getting paranoyed about the number
> and severity of attacks on
> > > Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook
> Express/Outlook.  Side-stepping
> >the
> > > Microsoft e-mail is easy--I went to Eudora about
> 3 years ago.  But, is
> > > anybody successfully using JFW with some other
> web browser than Internet
> > > Explorer.  Ditching Windows, JFW, and the like
> for another OS, browser,
> >and
> > > speech program is an option, but I'd rather not
> learn what is and is not
> > > accessible the hard way, if someone else has
> already been down this road
> > > and can tell me what does and doesn't work.
> > >
> > > 73, de Lou K2LKK
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Louis Kim Kline
> > > A.R.S. K2LKK
> > > Home e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
> > > Work e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
> > > Work Telephone:  (585) 697-5753
> > >
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
> Home e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
> Work e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
> Work Telephone:  (585) 697-5753
>




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