Tedster said:check for viri, check for trojans. Browser speed doesn't really have much effect on transfer speed. Why dial-up? Can you at least get DSL?
Po`Girl said:
jobeard said:oversized Cache and too frequent cache validation[/INDENT]
Bobbye said:I read the description of the TCP Optimizer. Basically, it's to tweak a broadband connection. It does mention dial-up which seems it may be similar to 'accelerators' that some dial-up ISPs use.
thehacker said:@Bobbye
Ya, i have menitoned that too that IEs have security holes.....but it depends up to us if we give the hackers exploit that or not. I m using that and i have tested it thru various sites and softwares.....and (may be coz of security softwares on my sys) nonne hav found any one single hole...
I have all windows updates installed too..
and for those who dont believe that IE is secure i would suggest to go through this months PC world magazine. For those who thought that Mac is free from malwares and security holes was proved wrong. And one expert hacked into a Mac machine. He also have tried to hack a Vista system. He reviewed that Vista is much secure than Mac. And one article in that very magazine said that if you are using XP SP2 and wanna upgrade to vista for security only then give a re-thought to your decision. It said that if your are using firewalls(it said ZA) and anti-spywares/viruses and using IE7 then there is no need to upgrade for security to vista. It gave some tweaks for IE7 that most of us(advanced users) use. So, our XP SP2 is as secure as vista and more secure than Mac OS. So, IE7 is safe and fast....
thehacker said:@yakwhacker
You cannot blame Microsoft so easily for making their softwares with security holes....those who have firm faith on Mac's security they shud check out http://www.pcworld.in/features/index.jsp/artId=6258695 and scroll down to Myth 7. and in that very magazine it was written that with anti-viruses/spywares and firewalls installed XP SP2 is as secure as Vista.
Ya we shudn't give the credit to IE7 but it can be used for surfing easily. I already said in my previious posts that do all mischeif on Opera. Use IE to surf secure and trusted ebsites only......i m using it since Feb-Mar 2007 and i have got no troble at all...
Ha. I knew I wasn't making things up when I said that above. I may have seen that you can turn that off at one point, but if you can't then I'd say Opera is a poor choice for browsing fast on dial-up. But I do think its cache works very well.jobeard said:Opera is great but it bugs me to wait for all the graphics to be downloaded before any display is shown.