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just stumbled upon this great little trick, MS wont let you uninstall IE in win XP so these kind folks have a workaround, Honestly, after seeing so many peoples PCs infested with viruses and spyware just having IE on my system makes me nervous..

disable IE

mikHATz wrote:just stumbled upon this great little trick, MS wont let you uninstall IE in win XP so these kind folks have a workaround, Honestly, after seeing so many peoples PCs infested with viruses and spyware just having IE on my system makes me nervous..

disable IE

i thought you need it becuase windowsupdate is IE only..
there is also a registry little hack to completely kill messenger too

shaneblyth wrote:

mikHATz wrote:just stumbled upon this great little trick, MS wont let you uninstall IE in win XP so these kind folks have a workaround, Honestly, after seeing so many peoples PCs infested with viruses and spyware just having IE on my system makes me nervous..

disable IE

i thought you need it becuase windowsupdate is IE only..
there is also a registry little hack to completely kill messenger too

I use firefox and Windows Update still works

Why dont u just use:

shaneblyth wrote:

mikHATz wrote:just stumbled upon this great little trick, MS wont let you uninstall IE in win XP so these kind folks have a workaround, Honestly, after seeing so many peoples PCs infested with viruses and spyware just having IE on my system makes me nervous..

disable IE

i thought you need it becuase windowsupdate is IE only..
there is also a registry little hack to completely kill messenger too

i believe that the windows update tis the only time when IE will be used, also i usually just uninstall Messenger from "add remove windows components"

haahha this people scared of ie makes me laught!
stop visiting free porn sites and such crap and you will be fine!!!

zappen wrote: haahha this people scared of ie makes me laught!
stop visiting free porn sites and such crap and you will be fine!!!

Whats the point of having a computer then?

it doesn't scare me, its just slow as hell, has no built in mail, no tabs, no customizable gui, no mouse gestures and really shitty download management etc etc

slow? do u own a pentium 200mhz? for the mail there is outlook express, or msn mesenger,both can be open from iexplorer

no tabs? just right click, open in a new window, or ctrl +n, when there are many windows open they will group as a unique window in the taskbar..

no cusomizable gui? u can move the toolbar, change sizes, colors, positions, fonts, u need more?

imo it's the most elastic and compatible browser, if you want to go with limitations or incompatibilities, go for something else!
the only thing i can complain is the download management..

cool man have fun with it

If you don't use it, it just sits there idle, not running, or anything.....
Why bother removing it.

MSN I can understand, it's just a trojan that's hard to remove and takes
resources...... but IE doesn't really do anything when you're not using it.

-Ben

MSN a trojan? LOL! i'd say it contains crapware (toolbars, desktop search, etc) that can be avoided during the installation, but very far from a trojan! wich allows people to remotely connect and take gain of your computer.

There is a reason I feel that way.... and yes I know security and know it's
not a trojan.

1. MSN is installed on all MS computers.
2. It's hard to remove unless you know how.
3. It runs at startup all the time.
4. Hackers like programs that have large distribution.
5. Exploits for MSN will come and go over time.

So I see it as a security risk just because of it's distribution, the fact it runs
all the time. Basically because it's a great target for hackers.

-Ben

MrYellow wrote: 3. It runs at startup all the time.

just go in it's general options end disable the startup on windows start, soo easy, aslo about uninstalling, is not that hard..

*cough*getamac*cough*