permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

John Schinnerer wrote:

> > 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.

I'm using 1.4 beta and have had Zero problems with any part of it ..... so 
far,
and I use the mail client as my main, default reader.

> > 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.

Thanks for these great references, John; I'll seek these out, d/l
and test drive.

Cheers,

LL
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