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Re: Fraud (little LBC content)

To: tr3driver@comcast.net, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Fraud (little LBC content)
From: Dave1massey@cs.com
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:48:48 EDT
In a message dated 9/8/2005 4:13:09 PM Central Standard Time, 
tr3driver@comcast.net writes: 
> It's more than just knowing where the delete button is.  Internet Explorer
> (standard Windows web browser) has been found to have many problems where a
> malicious web site can harm your computer just from your looking at the
> site.  M$ releases a new patch for it almost every month, but where there's
> 100 bugs, there's likely to be 101 bugs (cf Lubarsky's law).   I believe it
> can also reveal your email address, leading to more spam.
> 
Lucky me I used the Compuserve provided browser.  Probably more akin to 
Netscape than IE.

Dave




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