Just coz I left the keys in the ignition. . .Follow

Heh! In that case I would stick with Dell too. 5,000?? You could go nuts. I went the old fashioned saving the pennies route. Takes longer, but I suppose I have nothing to pay back now. Problem I have with Dell card if I was to get one with my income it would take a million years to pay off, and computers depreciate so fast. If you had the income to be able to buy a 1,500 dollar pc and pay 500 a month for 3 months, why not.

I do not have this problem. Evar. At work or at home. Firefox 1.5 Beta 2, Windows XP Pro.

I use Symantec Antivirus at home alongside Microsoft Anti-Spywear Beta and Spybot-Search And Destroy. I regularly run and update them as well as immunize with Spybot. I also do manual checks. I keep my startup clean and try and minimize the system resource usage on my system.

I have never even had 1% of the problems people claim to have with Windows in general and Windows XP in particular. I routinely get 2 or 3 weeks of uptime on my windows box. The only reasons that I have to reboot is because of new nVidia drivers or because I was fooling around with settings I had no buisiness with in the first place.

I worked in IT/Support at college and routinely had to clean 400-600 seperate spyware infections off of computers. People couldn't load the desktop or IE never worked or whatever. None of this has ever happened to me.

Hopefully you don't put your ***** into questionable cooch without a condom, so don't take your ePeen out without a condom either.

As for firefox and the security of it: It has had more flaws exposed than IE in the last few months, however it is a beta... not Version 6. The bugs are fixed promptly. The whole browser works better in general at this stage, I love version 1.5 beta 2. I cannot wait to see what version 2 and on brings.

knowledge = power

Yeah, I figure part of my problem with FireFox is that I'm trying to run it alongside a bunch of other third party freeware for viruses and adware, but it's all updated and FF is updated and everything. As for FF plugins; it tells me I need a plugin to run stuff on pages, but when I click the little "get the plugin" bar, it tells me that it can't find the plugin, and even if it does find the plugin and download it, next time I try to run the content, it tells me I need the plugin again. But I check my computer pretty strenuously for adware and stuff (I visit the kind of sites that make me paranoid about Carnivore and people tracking my internet activity - NOT ****) and as far as I know, I don't have any on my computer.

It probably doesn't help that I'm basically running a glorified 386 with a ton of RAM chips plastered into it at various and sundry locations.



Um... I thought I *was* the questionable cooch. XD