Beware of IE7

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Frankster said:
From the MS website... (basically, security)

-Frank

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Internet Explorer 7 provides security through a robust new
architecture, security features that help defend against
malicious software (also known as malware), and new ways to
better protect against the theft of personal data from
fraudulent websites, a practice known as phishing. Click on
the features to learn more.
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Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Uninstalled already. Learned enough in five minutes of fighting
with this beast.

Doug W.
 
Waiting may be tricky for a lot of folks. Last I heard, MS was going to
"push" it out via automatic updates as a critical update.
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Hard cheese for them. I don't use automatic updates.
 
Last I heard, MS was going to "push" it out via automatic updates as a
critical update.
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It'll be a "high priority update" rather than a "critical update":
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/automaticupdates/default.mspx


high priority update
A classification used on the Windows Update Web site and by the Windows
Update Service to recommend Microsoft software updates and drivers that help
protect against the latest publicly known security threats and reliability
issues.

critical update
A broadly released fix for a specific problem addressing a critical,
non-security-related bug.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/glossary.mspx
 
John said:
Unless you install the IE7 Blocker Toolkit :-)
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Or just add this to you registry (shorter than that huge download,
that even requires genuiene validation as well). Just copy the rest of
this message and save it to "IE7 block install.reg" and "Merge" that:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\7.0]
"DoNotAllowIE70"=dword:00000001
 
I had to uninstalled this crap because once it was installed my windows auto
updates went haywire. It wanted to keep downloading and installing the same
Security update kb923980 either ie7 is a new piece of software or it's ms'
way to track the software on your box that is not your's through purchase.
Also once I uninstalled ie7 I had to set ie7 to be ignored in the auto
updates,I altered updates to just tell me of avalible updates, and good thing
I did. I was notified of new updates today 11/21/06 and guess what it turned
off my setting and tried to reinstaal itself. How bad is that. I tell ya my
next system is going to be a MAC... THESE GUY's ARE GOOD at fuc%&^** with
your system with no prior consent. Keep doing research on this version of ie
and security and you'll be amazed at what you find. Want a solid and reliable
security capable browser use FIREFOX.. That's where Microsoft got thier ideas
from. Check it out and see for yourself, it's free and so was the technology
that's what microsoft does now use all the open content ideas that worked for
some one else WHAT A SUC BUTT COMPANY go billy go


Knowledge is Power
 
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I had to uninstalled this crap because once it was installed my windows auto
updates went haywire. It wanted to keep downloading and installing the same
Security update kb923980 either ie7 is a new piece of software or it's ms'
way to track the software on your box that is not your's through purchase.
Also once I uninstalled ie7 I had to set ie7 to be ignored in the auto
updates,I altered updates to just tell me of avalible updates, and good thing
I did. I was notified of new updates today 11/21/06 and guess what it turned
off my setting and tried to reinstaal itself. How bad is that. I tell ya my
next system is going to be a MAC... THESE GUY's ARE GOOD at fuc%&^** with
your system with no prior consent. Keep doing research on this version of ie
and security and you'll be amazed at what you find. Want a solid and reliable
security capable browser use FIREFOX.. That's where Microsoft got thier ideas
from. Check it out and see for yourself, it's free and so was the technology
that's what microsoft does now use all the open content ideas that worked for
some one else WHAT A SUC BUTT COMPANY go billy go
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Other than the flame like nature of your post I can't agree with you more. I
use and support Microsoft products in my workplace because that is what we have
standardized on. However, in my personal life I've changed over to nearly 100%
Linux. I did this because I don't like the direction I see Microsoft going in.
Don't get me wrong, I used to swear by Microsoft up until Windows 2000. But
after sing IE7 and Vista (both in beta and RTM versions) I am glad I made the
change.

At least now the power is in my hands and no corporation has any say in what I
do with my PC. It is mine to do with as I please. And I have to say, there
isn't anything that I've wanted to do in Windows that I haven't found an
acceptable (and often excellent) OSS alternative. Well, except for games.
That's really the only reason I boot into Windows anymore.

Now, I can't expect everyone to make a jump to Linux. However, you can make
Windows much more tolerable by looking into things like OpenOffice, Firefox,
and Thunderbird.

I'll never put someone down for preferring Microsoft though. It's all about
choice. To each their own, but my choice in never to use another Microsoft
product in my home ever again.

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Well, you know, I'm capable of a flame myself - and I also couldn't agree
more.

What is more, this great idea of Microsoft's to force this product on all of
us through automatic updates has forced the more savvy of us to turn off
automatic updates and not update Windows until Microsoft gets over it, if
Microsoft ever does.

I am becoming increasingly convinced that Microsoft staff have little brain
power. Probably not true of every Microsoft employee, but I've not
encountered exceptions in this newsgroup yet!
Noone has had either the intelligence or the respect to answer my question,
and if they want my respect, they'll give it.

Mind, maybe IE 7 isn't that bad, and I may well try it eventually when they
get the bugs out of it, IF we can still download and reinstall IE 6, but
that time is certainly not now, and putting it in automatic updates was
stupid and wrong.

Not that Microsoft cares enough about the likes of us to read our flames.
 
=?Utf-8?B?c2tpcA==?= said:
I had to uninstalled this crap because once it was installed my windows auto
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Please state why, in full detail, why you want to be a no-fee BETA
tester for MS?
 
I have been round and round trying to get rid of IE 7 ("busy phone lines").
I cannot really afford the call and am glad now that I did not make it. Is
there not anything that can be done? I am furious. Does this mean that we
are stuck for now? A technical question for you as I am not technically
savy. If I should manage to uninstall it, how do I get a browser? Thanks.
 
<Cynical Mode>

I love these threads proclaiming that IE7 doesn't work. If IE7 didn't work,
it would not have been released and would not have been put on Windows
Update.

Meaning, if IE7 does not work FOR YOU, then there is something wrong with
your computer that is causing the problem.

</Cynical Mode>
 
I have been round and round trying to get rid of IE 7 ("busy phone lines").
I cannot really afford the call and am glad now that I did not make it.
Is
there not anything that can be done? I am furious. Does this mean that
we
are stuck for now? A technical question for you as I am not technically
savy. If I should manage to uninstall it, how do I get a browser?
Thanks.
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IE7 questions should be asked in the Internet Explorer newsgroup. There are
quite a few posts there so peruse them for something on topic before posting
a new message.

Newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general.
 
I love cynicism as much as the next guy, but I have now installed Firefox,
deleted IE 7, and am having no more problems. This mode also should not
believe everything it sees or hears. Thanks anyway.
 
I love cynicism as much as the next guy, but I have now installed Firefox,
deleted IE 7, and am having no more problems. This mode also should not
believe everything it sees or hears. Thanks anyway.
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I have been using Firefox and IE6 together for some time now. With
the passing of each day, I have used Firefox a little more than IE6
than the previous day. I will still be forced to use IE6 for M$
Update site usage but will probably never put that IE7 thing on my
system or at least until the problems are worked out... if at all. And
don't be led astray by these M$ ass licking clones that tell you that
M$ would NEVER put anything out that doesn't work. That's just an all
out bare faced lie and anyone that knows M$'s track record knows that.
You have to watch anything these M$ Clones tell you. They are as
unscrupulous as their WGA Malware distributing Master is. Read the
trade mags to keep current with what to watch out for and what to stay
clear of. Except in the demented minds of the programmed M$ Clones,
IE7 is still a problem causer. Just think of it this way... what do
you think of someone that tells you that your computer is causing a
problem when that computer was running just fine until this software
was installed on it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that
the problem was not the perfectly running computer but the software
that brought that perfectly running computer down after this software
was installed on it, software produced by a company that already has a
track record of putting stuff out way before it has been properly
tested and/or put out on the public making them unknowing beta testers
for that company.

Regards,
 
Look in add/remove programs.
Scroll down to Windows Internet Explorer and choose remove.
Reboot and your previous browser and settings will be restored.
--
mae

"Nontechnical Grandma" <Nontechnical (e-mail address removed)>
wrote in message |I have been round and round trying to get rid of IE 7 ("busy phone lines").
| I cannot really afford the call and am glad now that I did not make it.
Is
| there not anything that can be done? I am furious. Does this mean that
we
| are stuck for now? A technical question for you as I am not technically
| savy. If I should manage to uninstall it, how do I get a browser?
Thanks.
|
| "its_my_dime" wrote:
|
--snip--
 
Ed said:
I have been using Firefox and IE6 together for some time now. With
the passing of each day, I have used Firefox a little more than IE6
than the previous day. I will still be forced to use IE6 for M$
Update site usage but will probably never put that IE7 thing on my
system or at least until the problems are worked out... if at all. And
don't be led astray by these M$ ass licking clones that tell you that
M$ would NEVER put anything out that doesn't work. That's just an all
out bare faced lie and anyone that knows M$'s track record knows that.
You have to watch anything these M$ Clones tell you. They are as
unscrupulous as their WGA Malware distributing Master is. Read the
trade mags to keep current with what to watch out for and what to stay
clear of. Except in the demented minds of the programmed M$ Clones,
IE7 is still a problem causer. Just think of it this way... what do
you think of someone that tells you that your computer is causing a
problem when that computer was running just fine until this software
was installed on it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that
the problem was not the perfectly running computer but the software
that brought that perfectly running computer down after this software
was installed on it, software produced by a company that already has a
track record of putting stuff out way before it has been properly
tested and/or put out on the public making them unknowing beta testers
for that company.

Regards,
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You'd have more credibility if you dropped the juvenile "M$" designation.
 
I'm not sure why all the fuss and feathers about IE7. I've been using it
since Beta, it's rock solid and in fact is now a required "Critical Update"
which means it's here to stay.

If you really are that anxious to get rid of it, just go into the control
panel, add/remove and take it out and you will roll back to the former (and
now outdated and not adequate for safety) IE6, at least until the next
critical update puts it back in.

Seriously, if you are having some specific problem with it, find out what
the answer is to that problem and fix it. Most of the time it isn't IE7
that caused it.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've had zero problems with it, since the fist
beta release.
 
Jone said:
I'm not sure why all the fuss and feathers about IE7. I've been using it
since Beta, it's rock solid and in fact is now a required "Critical Update"
which means it's here to stay.
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False, it's a high priority update, not critical at all. Why is it High
Priority? It's designed to push you towards Vista, of course.

Alias
 
It is indeed issued as a 'Critical Update' and for those of us in the UK
that means that Internet Banking is only guaranteed by UK banks if it IS
installed !
I have had no problems that could not be resolved by simple adjustments and
feel that all this fuss is completely over the top.
 
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