Then you must lack the ability to express it.

sigh......

maybe you are too busy arguing to fully understand what im talking about... to be quite honest.

I don't think that's really honest, to be honest. Your point about hackers not targeting users computers is not a valid one, they can do it, they will do it, they already do it. There's a lot of money to be made in it and where ever there is money to be made there are people ready able and willing to exploit whomever and whatever they need to make it.

there is a free tool called process explorer you can download for free, which replaces the taskmanager along with it's inherent inadequacies big time.

I agree with running vmware, it's a smart move. I am an anti-hacker, but could not really see much but arguing over who is smarter on this thread. sort of shame really.

bottom line, bots do the hacking, the person only looks at what is spit out on their printer after the firewall or whatever has been breached, unless it is just a malicious site visit in the first place, then it is also too late there 2.

ransonware is not that hard to get rid of, make certain you turn off system restore and del the hibersys file or the problem will often return.

avg free is a good program, but it competes with others, many of which are also spyware, crapware, or some kind of wares - which means the pc needs to be cleaned up from excessive programs before work is attempted...

test your browser, not your isp, at http://www.proxyblind.org/anoncheck.shtml

firefox needs to have noscript installed, and then:

Firefox's configuration is a long list of keys and values. To view this list, type about:config into the Firefox address bar. Then, enter the name of the key you want to update in the "Filter" field.

type refer, and change the default (2) to 0 in the referer so FF will not show where you have been and how many times you have been there.


Tab width modification:
* Key: browser.tabs.tabMinWidth
* Modified Value: 55 (fit in more tabs before overflow enables scroll)
* Alternate Modified Value: 0 (disable scroll entirely)
* Default: 100


Firefox has this wacky little feature that downloads pages from links it thinks you may click on pages you view, like the top result on a page of Google results. This means you use up bandwidth and CPU cycles and store history for web pages you may not have ever viewed. Creepy, eh? To stop that madness, set the network.prefetch-next key to false.

* Key: network.prefetch-next
* Modified Value: false

Speeding up firefox for broadband:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8.

Limit allowed cookies to those set by the originating website can use about:config to modify the preference network.cookie.cookieBehavior to "1".

layout.spellcheckDefault=2 will enable spellcheck for text inputs, not just textareas.


TOR (for those of you who make your own proxies)

First, open Firefox's advanced settings menu by running about:config
from the address bar. Upon entering this address, you will see a long
list of internal settings. Modify the following ones and set them to
the suggested values shown here for maximum performance:

network.http.keep-alive.timeout:600 (300ms default is OK usually, but
600 is better.)
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy:16 (Default is 4)
network.http.pipelining:true (Default- false. Some old HTTP/1.0
servers can't handle it.)
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests:8 (No default)
network.http.proxy.keep-alive:true (Default- true, but double check)
network.http.proxy.pipelining:true (Default- false)

Afterwards, just restart the browser and experience the difference

If your pc is set up correctly, security hardened, then when testing your browser, well, mine reads, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, English, and Excellent.

What does yours read?

Turn off third party cookies in IE and FF.