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Re: [amibroker] Re: AA and IB



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Trading Reference Links

Not a thing except that MS has stopped supporting it and improving it
(according to many).  I wanted tabbed windows open and enjoy some of the
other features within these shells that are not a part of native IE6.
BTW, they all depend on IEx being installed.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Venosa [mailto:advenosa@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:05 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Off_Topic: Clearing my name on Tabbed Browsers

Ken, just curious, what's wrong with IE6?

Al Venosa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Close" <closeks@xxxxxxxx>
To: "AmiBroker List" <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:50 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Off_Topic: Clearing my name on Tabbed Browsers


> After I posted a recommendation to NetCaptor here, I saw various
> messages saying this was spyware.  Sure enough, Google delivered
various
> hits (near the top) claiming NetCaptor was spyware.
>
> Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, is highly respected and
> credible.  I wrote to him about his NetCaptor reco and the spyware
> assertion.
>
> Here is his reply (below).   A big lesson is: do not necessarily
believe
> the top hits from a Google search; more due diligence is needed,
> somehow. Especially the dates on the hit pages.
>
> Ken
>
> PS:  Even after purchasing NetCaptor, I tried MyIE2 (free),
recommended
> here by Graham, and I like it so much better that I am settled into
> MyIE2 as my day to day browser.  Right now I have too many browser
> shells on my hard drive and will need to delete some of them.
>
> -------- Message from Walt Mossberg----------------
> Ken,
>
> It's not spyware. I am comfortable in saying that. Before I
recommended
> it, I thoroughly checked their privacy policy, and their policy on
> serving ads in the free version. Both passed muster with me.
> Nevertheless, after getting your email, I went back to the author,
Adam
> Stiles, to see what he had to say. Here is his reply:
>
> "Its absolutely not true. I tried the Google search for NetCaptor and
> Spyware and came up with ancient references. Long ago we used the
> Aureate/Radiate ad system, as did many software authors, and after
that
> Web3000, but we stopped them both long ago. We ALWAYS disclosed what
we
> were installing during the installation process, always giving users
> options, always being completely upfront about anything we installed.
We
> stopped distributing the last Web3000 system in late 2000, and Aureate
> long before that. Even if you think those are spyware applications, we
> haven't distributed them for about 3 years. I don't think we were
> distributing spyware, because we always fully disclosed what we were
> doing. If I had it to do over again we might have done something
> different, but when we started, the term spyware hadn't even been
> coined."
>
>
>
> Walt Mossberg
>
>
>
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