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16 Jan 2005, 20:33
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a little bit broken
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something is kooky with my internet explorer
keeps setting my homepage back to http://0ml.net/cat what ever i do
McAfee doesnt seem to be doing anything about it :-(
what is it and what do i do?
xx
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16 Jan 2005, 20:44
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Guy next door
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: The Netherlands
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
run Search and Destroy and Ad-ware. Also that new microsoft spybot program. Things will be better after probably.
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17 Jan 2005, 02:51
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
mine started doing that about a week ago, s&d didnt nothing, nor did spybot or noadware and norton didnt pick anything up either, now one of my friends has started doing it too, mine is still infected, i had to change to firefox as ie became unusable and it was the only thing left to do.
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17 Jan 2005, 03:37
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Insomniac
Join Date: May 2003
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
switch to firefox for good measure ( or opera , before leshy yells ). Anything but IE except for sites which demand it ( with activex and all that )
should help to keep your computer relatively securer then it would be using IE alone
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21 Jan 2005, 05:00
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
Code:
# emerge -pv search internet-explorer
Searching...
[ Results for search key : internet-explorer ]
[ Applications found : 0 ]
# emerge -pv IE
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "IE".
Huh? What's Internet Explorer?
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21 Jan 2005, 19:14
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Wankoverable
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: wherever I am
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
seriously, just stop using that piece of shit really.
Personally I've told all my acquintances who usually ask me for help when they have trouble with their PC, I'm not helping any more if they use IE. So tired of it
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24 Jan 2005, 14:51
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Retired PeOn
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Luton, UK
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
I stopped using IE over a year ago, switched to Firefox0.8.
The trick is, to actually remove it from your system entirely, which i have found to be impossible with damn windows XP, which keeps putting it back.
Anyone who knows how to get rid of that huge virus that is IE please let me know.
I have (officially/technically) uninstalled it, but windows doesn't remove it entirely, and if you simply delete iexplore.exe XP reinstalls it a second or so later.
Alternatively, help me to convince MSN messenger to stop opening IE when opening Inbox (have msgplus installed, which "in theory" will overwrite it and open in a different browser)
Brimstone
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24 Jan 2005, 22:40
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Jolt's best friend
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flavius
dont remove IE
it's needed for the system to work
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last i heard, this was untrue.
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24 Jan 2005, 23:53
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Friendly geek of GD :-/
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
Well, I wouldn't suggest it anyway!
My old point in favor of IE was always the Windows Update Website, but that's not true anymore since this update.
Hm, maybe http://officeupdate.microsoft.com ?
But anyway, it's ok if you don't USE it, but why removing it? You can't be sure that it's not needed at all by XP. That's the problem with some THAT deeply "to the OS connected" piece of software. You might harm yourself more then you'd like.
And is the disk space really THAT badly needed?
And MSN can be deactivated / deinstalled using a tool called XP AntiSpy.
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24 Jan 2005, 23:58
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Jolt's best friend
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
start -> run
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
reboot
winner \o/
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25 Jan 2005, 08:23
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Insomniac
Join Date: May 2003
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
Quote:
Originally Posted by mist
last i heard, this was untrue.
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it is untrue you dont *need* IE for windows to work
However since ms bundled it into the core os ( which creates a whole host of problems itself, mostly security related ) its been done so it cant be removed properly. theres no real reason for it being as tightly bound into the OS other then to stamp out other browser software out there while avoiding the antitrust lawsuits screaming " we cant remove it, see! "
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25 Jan 2005, 11:35
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Godfather
Join Date: May 2000
Location: England
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
http://www.webuser.co.uk/cgi-bin/for...b=5&o=93&part=
try what hes talking about. hopefully you know what things like 'hijack this' is etc.
if not then google for whatever he talks about in the post and run them.
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25 Jan 2005, 15:19
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Jolt's best friend
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil^
it is untrue you dont *need* IE for windows to work
However since ms bundled it into the core os ( which creates a whole host of problems itself, mostly security related ) its been done so it cant be removed properly. theres no real reason for it being as tightly bound into the OS other then to stamp out other browser software out there while avoiding the antitrust lawsuits screaming " we cant remove it, see! "
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i was under the impression that someone had demonstrated an IEless windows in court during a us anti trust case?
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25 Jan 2005, 15:40
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Retired PeOn
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Luton, UK
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Re: something is kooky with my internet explorer
Heh. solved my problem enough, found a plugin for msgplus that works +overrides the need for IE to open mails, and removes a number of very annoying limiters built into messenger. All other programs have worked out what "Default Browser" is for, and use Firefox.
One problem down, about 50 more to go...
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