Re: Why you should use a firewall on Win98

From: Connected (connected_at_somewhere.here)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:38:38 -0800

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:41:54 +0900, Gerald Vogt <vogt@spamcop.net>
wrote:

>Nothing of the above references or even mentions issues with JavaScript.
>
>Gerald

 You think running javascript and ActiveX is safe? I don't. Malicious
scripts are not uncommon. There are applets that ask if you want to
install them and they have switched the "no" repsonse button to
actually install the applet, or even clicking the X in the upper right
will install it. Personally, I'm using Firefox with no Java or java
scripting and I've disabled "allow websites to install software". You
do as you please.