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Member since June 15, 2004

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    Phil Randal

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  1. Review - E-mail ProGen

    2.0 (Feb 22, 2007)

    You really should not be listing tools whose sole purpose is to mine email addresses for subsequent spamming

  2. Review - Mozilla for Windows

    1.7.6 (Mar 22, 2005)

    Fixes in 1.7.6:

    http://www.mozilla.org/p...rabilities.html#Mozilla

  3. Review - Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows

    1.0.2 (Mar 22, 2005)

    Fixes in version 1.0.2:

    http://www.mozilla.org/p...lities.html#Thunderbird

  4. Review - avast! Home

    4.5.518 (Nov 14, 2004)

    This is one of the best "free for use at home" antivirus programs. Timely pattern updates, unlike some of the big names who should know better. This version does away with the need to configure your email program (Outlook Express/ Thunderbird / Edora / Pegasus Mail) and in so doing might break existing setups which might suddenly find they can't send or receive mails. The solution is to reconfigure them to talk direct to your ISP's POP and SMTP severs (Avast now intercepts this and scans transparently)

  5. Review - Ad-Aware

    1.05 (Sep 17, 2004)

    guilherme you are so wrong! A way to get past IE 6SP2's ActiveX warnings has already been found. See the bugtraq post at http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/375490

  6. Comment - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Finally Arrives

    1.05 (Nov 10, 2004 - 7:51 AM)

    Try TabbrowserPreferences 0.9.95 from http://www.pryan.org/moz...site/TheOneKEA/tabprefs/

  7. Comment - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Finally Arrives

    1.05 (Nov 9, 2004 - 11:20 AM)

    That's not my experience, but some people have reported it being slow. I'm as mystified by this as others are, and that discussion is best taken to the Mozillazine forums where people are earnestly seeking solutions to problems like this.

    The tweak network settings extension ( http://www.bitstorm.org/extensions/ ) does speed it up. It would be wrong to judge Firefox (or any other browser) merely on the speed it takes to handle a piece of Javascript designed to show how good or bad Opera / Safari / Internet Explorer / your favourite browser / your most despised browser is.

    Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for Internet Explorer to support CSS2 properly (position:fixed, for example). A quick Google will reveal just how bad IE's CSS support is.

  8. Comment - Microsoft Patches IE Flaw

    1.05 (Jul 3, 2004 - 7:55 AM)

    According to SecurityFocus (http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10514), this bug affects IE 5.5 and later on Windows 95 and later. So why is the patch only for Windows 2000 and above? Microsoft STILL doesn't get it.

    It's a simple registry edit to disable ADODB.Stream on those OSes the patch doesn't support.