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On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 20:50 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > Um... as far as I'm aware the IE Tab in Firefox actually emtbeds > Internet Explorer into Firefox so it's probably little help. That's why I am asking. If that is the case, it will have all the vulnerabilities and she might just as well use IE as it now seems like an illusion she is using FF. Though I might keep quiet about this....not sure. > It's > certainly a good idea to be running an up to date decent anti-virus > program. AVG isn't too bad although if it's for business or charity use > then you'd need a licensed version (about £30 or so). She has a licensed version on her desktop and a free version on her laptop. As she uses it for work, I may argue the Charity should pay. > Is there any > reason why she can't use Firefox for everything? Only the inconvenience of it being a different display for OWA. > > Outlook Web Access should work under Firefox, it just uses a slightly > more basic version, at least on the older versions of Exchange. Yes - it does work. > > Oh by the way, try avoiding things like MyWebSearch, FunWebProducts etc > as they're plagued with ad-ware. She now realises this - a search gave me a lot of info to tell her! At least we managed to remove it after several goes (Spybot did two passes - one in safe mode and left FWP which then AdAware removed.) Thanks James -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html