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Website owners can track users anyway (via JavaScript, for example). Not implementing ping tracking would merely drive site owners to use other techniques. And other suggestions here, such as displaying a prompt, would likely be extremely annoying (I bet that ping attribute is already being used al...

Website owners can track users anyway (via JavaScript, for example). Not implementing ping tracking would merely drive site owners to use other techniques. And other suggestions here, such as displaying a prompt, would likely be extremely annoying (I bet that ping attribute is already being used al...

anyone tried this out?

i hear people complaining about Skype all the time

i actually bought a lifetime subscription to the Pro version and a few years later they closed down My impression is that running a security company is difficult. You don't just need trained but trusted professionals, you need to make decisions that aren't just business but also financial, and you ...

interesting

i would want tabs myself but the idea that you have to whitelist any domains ahead of time is interesting if it could be done quickly and easily

also needs forward, back and reload buttons

is this based on anything like chrome or firefox engine?

Old thread update: Unfortunately this program is no longer in development. The program is still up on Softpedia but is listed as a demo / trial and I can't find a home page ... https://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Outpost-Security-Suite-Free.shtml iirc they sold out to Kaspersky? i actually boug...

i haven't used Otter Browser for a while but it used to be somewhat lightweight iirc

another option might be Midori

also Vivaldi and Brave are probably lighter than IE if you're just opening a few tabs

i notice that the program HostsServer is nowhere to be found on that website any more

webfork wrote: ↑

Wed May 22, 2019 12:45 pm

I didn't like TorGuard, though that wasn't due to battery issues but just poor software.

that's what i have, TorGuard

Before condemning Basilisk for not being natively portable, one should take care to test some of the well documented Firefox portability remedies -- which I haven't done, but would certainly do, if I had the the leisure and the will to test this Firefox browser clone... Please try either one of the...

Perhaps the battery pack is reaching EOL? Can you compare its health across those laptops? BatteryCare might be of help here, dunno... its relatively new, only been using it for 3-4 months although it was manufactured Aug 2015 i suspect govt level malware, have hear others say if you use VPN's you ...

is Basilisk actually portable yet? i was avoiding using it for now I would continue to avoid it as it is early stage. As to portability, they have a ZIP distro that I assume is likely portable but I will not test it until development comes along. fwiw, i downloaded the 64-bit ZIP archive that's on ...

Midas wrote: ↑

Wed May 22, 2019 4:15 am

bitcoin wrote: ↑i turned off Windows Updates - will there be patches from MS that i need to download to fix these?

I'm quite sure of it -- but can't really help you more than to advise you to look at Ghacks.net; the site's owner there gives pretty good coverage of MS updates.

thanks, i'll check it out

i turned off Windows Updates - will there be patches from MS that i need to download to fix these?

is Basilisk actually portable yet?

i was avoiding using it for now