Re: How can I kill IE?!?!?!!?

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From: RJK (notatospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:18:29 -0000

With sensibly set IE security settings, a decent and correctly set up
firewall in place, and making a little effort to add web addresses that you
trust to not send malicious software, into IE's trusted sites zone, and
perhaps into the firewalls' web list, use of the hosts file, and an
autoconfiguration script, switching off the "MS Messenger service - network
alerter / messaging service or whatever it's called," and a few other common
sense odds and ends - there's nothing really wrong with IE. ...other than
it being riddled with security issues !

I mean, if visiting an "unknown" flashy web site and IE asks you if you want
to allow ActiveX controls to run in your browser window - you say "NO"
...don't you ? ...and if IE asks you if you want to allow scripting or
Java Applets to run and you have no idea what they're going to do because
the site is strange to you ...surely one would click "NO" or "DENY." ?!?!

...ps I've gone back to Norton Internet Security. I tried using Avast and
Zonealarm. ...didn't like Avast, didn't like Zonealarm because a little
bubble thingy kept flashing on and off on top of ZA's system tray red/green
"LED"-like icon in my system tray. And there seemed to be nowhere in ZA
that could give me details of all open connections, like in Norton.

IE is fine if you take the effort to use it properly, and make a little
effort to set it up properly, and make a little effort find out a little
about general internet security :-)

regards, Richard

"Galen" <Galen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AAFD24C7-5161-40B2-A60D-29F210066A7F@microsoft.com...
> Now that I've switched to Mozilla Firefox (which I highly recommend), I
> want
> to completely remove MIE from my system due to security issues; popups are
> still sneaking through via IE.... and microsoft anti-spyware hasn't helped
> either. But, when I went to uninstall IE, it only removed the links to
> the
> software.... IE still very much exists on my computer and the popups are
> still taking full advantage......
>
> any ideas?

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