[sdiy] Did someone Hack Google?

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Chris 'n' all.

At 08:53 PM 9/3/02 -0400, Machinerygod wrote:
>Tuesday, September 03, 2002, 6:42:32 PM, you wrote:
>
>RB> Also, not that you'd do such a thing, going anywhere near the adult sites
>RB> might set your default page to some redirector without asking!
>
>I'm not positive, but I think a lot of that can be solved by not using
>IE. I'm always on Opera myself unless I find something that just won't
>display properly unless it's in IE.

I don't run IE period. Just having it on your machine is a liability since 
windows programs can call it as a resource. Which means that almost 
anything can call it to a net-resource, download shit and run it. And you 
wouldn't even know. P2P software such as Kazza and iMESH do this all the 
time. To disable it, simply delete it. As with outlook and all the other 
viruses Microsoft pre-infect your computer with. As the saying goes... If I 
wanted a pig I'd rattle a bucket.

And just out of interest. I use Opera and NetBastard on this box and 
neither have a default home page set. Not even my own web site. Nothing. 
Nada. zip. Java and Java script are usually turned off and cookies blocked 
until I specifically allow them.

Recently, Maxim asked me to help beta test some new software/website 
features they were implementing. (Along with possibly thousands of others.) 
Unfortunately this little applett only runs on IE. Sadly I had to inform 
them that unless the pulled their heads out their asses I couldn't help 
them. What about the Mac users? What about the Linux users? And since M$ 
products are rapidly becoming endangered species round here, the rule of 
thum is. "If you can't support it, I don't want it." And if more people 
took that attitude, then companies like Maxim would think twice about being 
proxy enforcers of the microsoft tax.

But then you all know this I guess.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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