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I understand that Microsoft has never fixed the vulnurability in using the back button. IE doesn't check the html code for nastiness if you use the back button.
Mozilla or Opera don't have these security holes.
Don't use Outlook Express or Internet Explorer. Windows can be made much more secure by avoiding their internet software products.
You can even get infected just by running vulnerable versions of some software. For example, unpatched 1.3.* versions of apache have a hole in mod_ssl, that is vulnerable to the slapper worm.
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