He he, I suppose you still swear on your ol' MSIE for surfing the net. Here comes Mr. MS-Alternative: I recently fell totally in love with Mozilla's latest breed: Firebird (version 0.7, stable) aka Firefox (same thing, new name, new version 0.8, beta). I've had Firebird on my Mac for quite a while and loved it, now got the new Firefox which was released today - and truely wouldn't want any other browser again in my live. It exists - like most good Open Source Software - on Mac, Windows and Linux. Go and download it at http://www.mozilla.org (beware, the site's slow today since EVERYONE is downloading the new Firefox)! It has a nice little intelligent pop-up-blocker, too, which can let pop-ups through on a domain name basis, which is very handy! There are some other nice features, too, you definitively gonna like.
And, get rid of Windows. I can highly recommend SuSE Linux 9.0 (Personal as well as Professional). Got it even installed on my not so latest Sony Vaio - which was a Linux nightmare before SuSE 9.0 due to its funky hardware. Since I got Linux on my Laptop: no more serious dialer and virus dramas, and it works totally fine with any ISDN card, modem, DSL, even T-DSL and everything. And if you MUST run some Win-Apps, go get Wine-Rack, too, that is a perfect tool for runny nearly any Windows app on Linux with no hastle. You can get both bundled from Amazon, by the way.
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And, get rid of Windows. I can highly recommend SuSE Linux 9.0 (Personal as well as Professional). Got it even installed on my not so latest Sony Vaio - which was a Linux nightmare before SuSE 9.0 due to its funky hardware. Since I got Linux on my Laptop: no more serious dialer and virus dramas, and it works totally fine with any ISDN card, modem, DSL, even T-DSL and everything. And if you MUST run some Win-Apps, go get Wine-Rack, too, that is a perfect tool for runny nearly any Windows app on Linux with no hastle. You can get both bundled from Amazon, by the way.
Stay safe, stay out of MS, Stephan.