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Kevin Mullins:
Does anyone know of or can suggest a small internet monitoring type program that can tell me where certain junk comes from?
For instance....when my kids surf the web and such, I always end up having all kinds of crap on my pc that has been added, aoutomatically starts, pop-up, etc. (you guys know the drill) It's not that they visit BAD sites, mostly music and video type stuff. But alot of those are full of advertising type junk that keeps popping up everywhere. I've narrowed down a few of the site they frequent, but I was curious if there was something that can monitor when something was added and WHERE it came from. I hate setting all the privacy levels so high to block most of this, because then it is almost unbearable for ME to surf the stuff that I use.
Any ideas?
Tempted to go try Firefox or something, but everyone else in the house is used to IE.
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You can and should run Firefox - leave the family with IE if they choose (the two co-exist peacefully).
If you show them how many ads / popups you don't get, they might give it a go anyway!
Loki:
I use Firefox with NoScript... no more weird scripts or popups.
It needs getting used to but it works great for me.
http://noscript.net/
Kevin Mullins:
Can the IE favorites be transfered/imported over to Firefox?
Or can I copy the links from my favorites folder into a "favorites" in Firefox?
I haven't really looked intop specifics on Firefox yet, but it's looking more and more like I may give that a try for myself at least and see what I can and can't do with it as faras using some of the "goodies" the rest of the family is used to. (toolbars, etc)
I say this because if I like it then I will want to do away with IE completely because even if they are just using it it will still load crap onto the pc and slow it down. (background running stuff) Just tired of this routine I have to "clean" everything out all the time to keep things running smoothly.
Thanks for the advice and suggestions.
Loki:
IIRC, right after the firefox install it will ask if you want to import bookmarks, history, passwords and other data from IE or some other browser.
Or you can find "import" under File in Firefox.
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