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On 5/8/2012 1:36 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 5/8/2012 3:14 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>
>>
>> The main problem is the human being, whether coder or user.
>>
>> AHS
>
> There are now Trojans and viruses that attack the PC
> using JavaScript.
>
> One can't really shut down JavaScript in the browser like they can
> with the Java plugin to prevent applets from running.


Yes you can.  I run Firefox with NoScript, an add-on that blocks 
JavaScript.  Most sites work OK without JavaScript.  If I really need 
to, NoScript makes it easy for me to temporarily enable a single website.

In some cases, the problem is the platform.  I.e., JavaScript, or 
ActiveX.  But there's work-arounds too.