Re: Alito Confirmation Hearings/North American Figure Skating Championships
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Re: Alito Confirmation Hearings/North American Figure Skating Championships

From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <usenet-2006@planetcobalt.net>
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 19:28:23 CET

Charles Newman wrote:
> "Volker Birk" <bumens@dingens.org> wrote in message news:43dfd621@news.uni-ulm.de...
>> Charles Newman <charlesnewman1@comcast.do.not.spam.me.net> wrote:
>>> However, with WinControl, Internet Explorer can be locked down for
>>> extra security, and prevent changes to browser settings.
>>
>> Internet Explorer should not be used as a web-browser at all. So the
>> best settings to "lock" here are proxy 127.0.0.1:9.
>
> But IE is the only browser whose settings can be locked down. You
> cannot lock down Netscape, Firefox, or Opera

Of course you can lock down Firefox and Netscape, though it's trickier
than setting some policies for IE (I suppose that's what WinControl
does). Don't know for Opera, but I guess it's possible there as well.

cu
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Received on Tue Feb 7 20:58:42 2006