RE: Warning: Trolling for Dollars, Scammers hard at work

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

Robert wrote: "a remote webpage that you are reading is not allowed to
launch a program on your computer, period -- that would be a huge
security hole." Sure would. But isn't that just what Javascripts and
Active-X do? Or am I missing a vital distinction here? That's why I'm
leery of Java and Java programs (including PolarBar, whose site I looked
at when Robert first recommended it a while back; ZoneAlarm reported
three or four probes of my ports there.) I would love to be convinced I'm
wrong.
Patricia