He determined it happened due to an open port (that machine, a notebook, wasn’t connected to a hardware firewall). One of my friends’ machines was recently compromised while he was on vacation, and lots of damage to his entire network was done. And, on one unfortunate friend’s 166Mhz Gateway, Firebird ran 3-4x faster than IE, and started up in about half the time. In addition, Firebird has built-in pop-up blocking. You simply can’t get something “automatically” installed in Firebird… it doesn’t make any sense for it to be possible. The average XP user has HUNDREDS of pieces of adware/spyware running on their machine, all due to holes and exploits in IE. It’s not because I’m an anti-MS zealot, but only for their own well-being. I’ve already begun replacing IE with Firebird as the default browser on all of my newbie friends’ computers. IE has not received updates in so long, it’s almost disgusting. According to Google Zeitgeist, XP is running on more Internet-enabled computers than any other OS (38%), and until SP2, MS has not fixed the major Internet-related problems (open ports, “automatic” downloads with IE, and pop-up blocking). Well, we can finally clap our hands for MS.
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