Re: How can I kill IE?!?!?!!?
From: Dan (spamyou_at_user.nec)
Date: 01/28/05
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:10:35 -0700
Gerry, actually there can be a time and place to turn the pop-up blocker off.
It is useful when testing computers to see how badly they have been infected
with adware to actually turn the pop-up blocker off and diagonose whether the
user is getting lots of pop-ups and to help determine how bad the actual
operating system has been infected. However, when you are not testing and as
a general rule I agree with you on having the pop-up blocker enabled.
"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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: Galen
:
: "I don't have the option of chosing my own web browser in MS XP." This
: statement by you is not true! If you wish to run another browser
: Microsoft is not stopping you!
:
: If you do not want popups why are you turning the popup blocker off?
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: "Galen" <Galen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
: news:7C60692F-F7FC-4D9A-8A81-F5F52B840693@microsoft.com...
: > Honestly, this is the deal: When I open IE, it never retains my
: > original
: > start page (google), and it is followed by three or four popups
: > (regardless
: > of whether the popup blocker is active). When I open firefox, nothing
: > happens that shouldn't. Popups only open in IE..... and I am using a
: > linksys
: > router with the firewall active, and have McAfee security suite
: > installed...
: > including its firewall. The spyware sweeper is run daily, and I
: > typically
: > forbid sites to install apps on my computer. But, it seems that MIE
: > is still
: > the flaw in my internet security.
: >
: > Understand that I'm not a Microsoft hater..... I like XP (great
: > improvements
: > from 98) and I use alot of MS software without complaints. It's
: > unfortunate,
: > though, that I don't have the option of chosing my own web browser in
: > MS XP.
: > And yes, SP2 is installed. So, RJK, I'm not an idiot or ignorant or
: > uncaring or uninterested when it comes to the process of internet
: > security....... and I've reached the point where I'm fet up with MIE,
: > and
: > removing it/freezing it or demanding that it be overhauled is the next
: > step
: > in the ever-continueing process of security. I'm glad that your
: > effort to
: > use IE properly has worked well for you..... for me it seems like it
: > isn't
: > worth the effort, or the effort isn't effective enough. Kudos to
: > Mozilla for
: > creating a superior browser..... and bad bad microsoft for not letting
: > me use
: > it!
: >
: > "RJK" wrote:
: >
: >> 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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