d) Have you ever tried Tab Mix Plus? I used to be a big Tabbrowser Extensions fan, but Tab Mix Plus does just about everything TBE used to do and doesn't have "DON'T USE THIS" hanging over it.
f) I am shocked that there seems to be such (near-?)unanimity on Linux distro of choice these days. In a good way.
h) Karen, consider suggestions from this article and this one. For me, Windows XP SP 2 firewall, ZoneAlarm (installed before getting online!), AVG Free Edition, AdAware and Spybot Search and Destroy do the trick, but I am worried in that there seem to be several entire classes of software, per the latter article, that I am avoiding altogether.
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f) I am shocked that there seems to be such (near-?)unanimity on Linux distro of choice these days. In a good way.
h) Karen, consider suggestions from this article and this one. For me, Windows XP SP 2 firewall, ZoneAlarm (installed before getting online!), AVG Free Edition, AdAware and Spybot Search and Destroy do the trick, but I am worried in that there seem to be several entire classes of software, per the latter article, that I am avoiding altogether.