Macromedia Flash 7 trying to install?

[Davey.]

Flash is indeed used in many online ads & pop-ups. Trouble is, so is Java & JavaScript. If you simply "turn off" ALL 3 of those browser plug-ins/processes, you'll miss 40% of the content on the web (in one way or another). As for "saving time", it MIGHT with a dial-up, but you'll get your browser splashing "alerts" and junk at you all the time too.... so what annoys you more -- the ads or your PC telling you it can't properly display the pages code?

Good advice in general, but running XP and IE 6.0 I don't get any warnings at this site about my security settings when set to high and there's very little here that requires Java be enabled, at least nothing that I need. And the time savings on dialup are substantial since most of the ads don't need to be loaded and reloaded and reloaded. In fact, most of the time my screen is free of ads. Much nicer than having ads flashing all over the place. And two or three mouse clicks can restore security to a lower level so I always run with high security here. But it might not be for everyone since you won't be able to use the Clickable Smilies!