permaculture

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,


> MOZILLA

Second that.  Mozilla has in the past year and a half come a long way and
is now leading the pack, meaning it is full-featured, stable and ahead of
the rest in terms of support for web standards (see webstandards.org).

I don't recommend using the latest betas, though, unless you *want* to be
a tester.  Use the most recent stable relase for least hassle.

> Others in the security realm, the best currently available:
>
> Norton Antivirus

I don't much care for any of the big marketing names in virus software.

I use F-prot, a highly regarded product (not to be confused with a highly
marketed product) from a small company in Iceland (Frisk Software,
http://f-prot.com/).  Their 'engine' is used by quite a few "big names"
and large corporate clients internationally.

In the junk-busting category, I use privoxy (privoxy.org - free, open
source, all major platforms) for ad blocking/filtering, site/popup
blocking and all that good stuff.  It's highly configurable *and* the
defaults work really well for the most part.  Has a web configuration
interface.



John Schinnerer, MA
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