In a message dated 9/8/2005 7:50:19 PM Central Standard Time,
jar@aldermanroad.net writes:
> Many sites will include "trojan horse" software, expecially if you are
> using Internet Explorer with Active X. This will enable the site to
> actually acquire all kinds of info about your computer, and perhaps
> insert malicious software. Best to do as you did initially: Google the
> putative site, but never, never access the phony site.
I guess my curiosity got the better of me. I used my Compuserve browser
which is probably a derivative of Netscape and not IE so I'm hoping that
nothing
found its way in. And I'm counting on my Norton to catch anything that does.
Dave
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