re: Getting rid of the malware called IE - TOTALLY! (XP/SP3/IE7)
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 6:01 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(20219 messages posted)
I found your immature rant too tedious to finish reading, but stating that web pages
are being built for anything but IE is absolutely absurd. There are still too many
pages that can only be properly viewed with IE. Yes I know about Firefox's IE tab,
but it's not perfect.
If you take the time to learn how to remove XP's file protection system, then you
CAN delete iexplore.exe. As was noted you can not completely uninstall IE, but removing
the executable will accomplish what you want.
And I fully encourage you to pursue this option, as your brilliant mind fully deserves
the ability to run Windows any damn way you please, rather than having to live with
the M$ shackles. For anyone else reading this, please don't try this yourself, because
you don't have the brilliant mind of this poster.
P.S. when you kill XP, don't come back here looking for help.
On Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 9:55 pm, Monde wrote:
>There's another thread that addresses, in a somewhat vague way, the removal of Internet
>Explorer - but it does not satisfy me because I do not want to merely shut off user
>access to it. That will not stop the recent spate of very EVIL (and unfortunately
>well written) malware from going right ahead, shunting the permissions to whatever
>it wishes, and using it anyway. Now that web designers tend to design for "everything
>BUT IE" as a rule rather than exception I can finally get rid of the damned thing
>without any regrets. I note that after installing SP3 it seemed to be even more
>unwilling to let me do this, and I didn't want to louse everything up from here
til
>the next 498 Sundays.
>
>Unfortunately I caught the world's most horrendous malware - Smitfraud! You get
this
>and/or Virtumonde, there's no other choice but to do a wipe/format/clean install,
>so I did.
>
>(Note to fellow Smitfraud/Virtumonde sufferers: you've got my sympathies straight
>to the heart. It's the only choice, to start from square one and go through all
>the BS of reinstalling the whole system, softwares, ad.infinitum - unless you want
>to end up with a system riddled with holes and so full of dead tentacles of the
thing
>after whatever tweaky slaughter method you go with--and worst of all, it's not just
>clutter...some of those tentacles will respawn new horrors, just like those movie
>monsters that reanimate and regrow themselves from hacked-off bits of their dead
>bodies. I could describe what I would like to do to the individual[s] who wrote
>these malwares, but as this would by necessity be far too crude for a forum not
devoted
>to unpleasantries and violent outbursts, I'll spare you.)
>
>Sorry for the digression - but now that I've reformatted, and reinstalled, and finally
>got with the program and stopped being a lazy twit and now do everything from a
NON-ADMIN
>ACCOUNT (I know! I should have been doing that from the get-go, what can I say,
I'm
>a slow learner...) I want to continue with my proactive security prophylaxis schema
>(in English, that means "ounce of prevention = a ton of cures") and get rid of the
>piece of malware called INTERNET EXPLORER in a way that is as close as one can get
>to actually removing the $#@! thing instead of pretending to. Also I'd like any
>other suggestions of Windows programs to remove - is Media Player full of holes
enough
>that I ought to hose it off as well? ALL other players work better than it does
and
>I am really paranoid about the zillion ways it wants to shunt info to and from my
>computer to "Macrohard" (and gods know what other places - whether or not "Macrohard"
>intended that this was to happen!) so if there's a way to hose this too, I'd like
>to hear about it.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>M.
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