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majkinetor · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 3615 Location: Belgrade

Listen, Opera is anything you want it to be. I doubt there is another so customizable browsers. You can change everything but you may need a little time to learn how to customize it. Good place to start is opera customizatin wiki, I learned a lot there.

Now, in version 9.x opera developers fixed many things that were anoying, most notably history and mht support.

The bad side is that some sites are not going to work with opera, as it follows the standard (acctually, Opera is only PC browser that passed tests for standard compliance). You may ask how is this possible: IE does not follow it, and site authors usualy write sites to work good only in IE. Anyway, you can call system programs from within opera toolbar so it is enough to put IE button there and set as argument current web page, so if it doesn't work you just click the button.

My system is old about 3 years, and I extensively surf warz sites and similar places. I first scaned my system for adware before few days and it found 0. Don't get me wrong - nothing can protect you if you act stupid.

Other then that Opera's cache sucks, so if you use this a lot ( I don't use it at all ) don't use it.
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jps · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 253 Location: Scotland

Posting this with opera.
I'll give it a good try this time.I didnt really use it for long the last time.

The only reason I'm kind of reluctant to change is because i alread have firefox heavilly customised and some of my scripts rely on that.

I'll see how it goes.Thanks for all the advice.

majkinetor · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 3615 Location: Belgrade

You are welcome.

Note that everything said is only my opinion acording to my knowledge and habits.

You can check out this site too:
http://www.webstandards.org/

The reason why some sites are doomed with Opera (i.e. anybody can be web designer now)

Laszlo · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 3959 Location: Pittsburgh

A Computer Virus is a computer program which distributes copies of itself, even without permission or knowledge of the user (Wikipedia). A program, which does harm (deletes your files), but does not spread, is not a virus. AV programs are not designed to check for unwanted actions, but some do try to catch suspicious behavior. Deleting files can be legitimate.

majkinetor · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 3615 Location: Belgrade

Guest · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:06 am Post subject:

BoyWhoCriedMacro · Guest

BoyWhoCriedMacro · Guest

BoyWhoCriedMacro · Guest

n-l-i-d · Guest

You could consider using a HIPS (a host-based intrusion-prevention system)

For example: There is an excellent free version of System Safety Monitor available.

Or: use a good Hosts file (to prevent connections to certain sites), or even better, something like PeerGuardian (free IP-blocker)...

With a HIPS and an IP-blocker installed, you can be almost absolutely sure nothing runs you don't want to run (or more specific, what it is allowed to do), and an IP-blocker prevents unwanted connections.

Wink

Absolut Xero · Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 4 Location: Midland, MI

There is aways going to be code out there that will slip past AV programs, unless every system runs with Vista's approach, ask permission to do everything: "Are you sure you wanted to press the "e" key? click yes or no."
The only protection I see is religiously backing up your data to external media.
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