Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:55:28 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Homeland Security sez . . .
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> "This week, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, part of the
> Department of Homeland  Security, advised Internet users to "consider"
> using a different Web browser as a possible solution until Microsoft
> fixes the flaw that allows Explorer to be exploited."
>
> http://www.iht.com/articles/527677.htm
>
> I'm off to College Park to sell some exciting JHU books . . . see y'all
> tonight.
>
> mjw

I'm amused that none of the news articles I've seen about "using
alternative browsers" give any information on what the alternatives
might be.

Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org) has the Mozilla application suite (Web
browser, e-mail, address book, HTML composer, etc) and the Firefox Web
browser.  All are free.

Opera (http://www/opera.com) is an excellent Web browser that comes in
free (ad-supported) and non-free (adless) versions.

Both are considerably better than Internet Explorer except that they
don't support ActiveX, which is where most of the bugs live anyway.

Try 'em out, have fun.

Those of you who use Mac or Linux may now officially gloat.

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."