Just curious -- does Mozilla offer the option of Print Preview? This is one
of the reasons we switched to IE, that is, when Netscape "upgraded" and took
away that option (I know it's back now in th current version).
We're constantly "training" the students to Print Preview before hitting the
print button.
Rena Deutsch, Librarian
Humanities High School
351 W. 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
renadeutsch@att.net
www.hhslibrary.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joni Rathbun" <jrathbun@OREDNET.ORG>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: HIT: Avoiding popups
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Madeline L. Buchanan wrote:
>
> >
> > This morning in the newspaper there was a very interesting article about
IE.
> > It seems that security experts are advising web surfers to use alternate
> > browsers such as Mozilla or Opera due to virus attacks which allow
malicious
> > codes to be hidden in popular web sites. They warned of two problems -
a
> > technique that converts popular web sites into virus transmitters which
> > allows the stealing of passwords. Researchers also warned of a
> > password-stealing program hidden behind pop-up ads.
> >
> > A major Windows XP upgrade that would stop some of the security problems
in
> > IE is supposed to come out later this summer. Until then, I plan to use
> > Mozilla.
> >
> We've had nothing but problems that can be traced back to inexperienced
> kids and IE. Kids click anything that pops up. "You just won a zillion
> dollars!" Cool. Click. The computers get trashed quickly with ad ware,
> spy ware... and even some viruses inspite of virus software on the
> network. We contantly need to re-mirror and run spy-busting software,
> additional virus programs, etc.
>
> We've been testing browsers this summer and we're going the way of
> Mozilla... probably Firefox (it's worked well for us and does both
> mac and pc) on our network. Hopefully this brings about some positive
> changes.
>
>
> J. Rathbun, Librarian
> Mojave High School
> Clark County School District
> Las Vegas, Nevada
> Email: jrathbun@orednet.org
> http://ccsd.net/schools/mojave/library
>
> Leave it to Beaver was not a documentary.
>
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