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To: mr.mark who wrote (2722)	4/4/1999 5:31:00 AM
From: wily	Respond to of 110635

hahaha! excuse me? just what do you make me out to be, wily? :) actually, i am more concerned about possibly downloading infected software and inadvertently installing it on my machine. norton's is great because i can run a fast virus scan on anything and everything that i download prior to installing it. i wish i had some kind of numbers, but i envision viruses being spread by bad software or a buggy website more so than by email. i think email gets the nod for hoax viruses, no doubt It's just that I had used my computer for a LONG time (maybe a year? -- long in MY life) and one day I decided to try out a virus program. I installed it and it told me my computer was clean. I decided from that that I just wasn't likely to have virus problems. I realize other people have them, so I figured they must be exposed to things that I'm not exposed to. Maybe a business environment or something -- not trying to say you are a cyber-germ or anything <g> anyway, back to ie5.0, i've waited to download it until i hear from people like yourself, and gyspy, and others. starting to sound like a browser i can live without. netscape communicator4.5 is everything i need right now ie5 has some very nice features, but like you say, I was doing OK without it. win98 is nice too but it's kinda balky -- win95 is snappy in comparison. You notice it when opening files and programs. I used the special feature on the win98 defragmenter, and that DOES make programs open faster, but it's still slower than 95 IMO. One thing I picked up from the savvies on the Dream thread is with computer stuff you're better off not jumping right on the latest thing. Hardware AND software is rarely "mature" when it first becomes available and there is a sweet spot in time when the price is right and all (or most of) the bugs are out. So, you obviously have some of that savvy. I don't really understand why mine was un-uninstallable while others' were... Sidenote: The SI troubles I was having with ie5 after deleting my "temporary internet files": I did the same thing on win95/ie4 and have troubles there too now. Difference is, I can UNINSTALL ie4... huh? does not compute. beep