dszady said:
I understood it wouldn't be all clean when I was done using IEradicator
so I dove in and started reaming out FPExpress, IE and OE. I think
On impulse, I renamed iexplore.exe a couple of weeks ago, to verify my
belief that nothing would be affected. Thus far, nothing has complained.
Same time, there are a few progs out there that are hard-coded to want
it, and won't look in the registry for default browser; they'd have to
be dealt with specially.
(Tangent... The other day I changed the rename from iexplore.xxx to
iexploreX.exe, and when launched, itse start-up message was curious,
something about iexplore running in "compatibility mode." I haven't
checked what is meant with that.)
OE, I don't have it installed. Yet the project I've had on my todo list for
a while is to find how to install it most minimally - just enough to get
support for mshtml file format (that compressed html & pics all-in-one file
given on the IE save as). I'd prefer to have that, just I've not going
around to going through the task of getting it without an excess amount
of accompanying OE debris.
IEradicator cuts the chains that bind that sh*t to the OS. None of the
several times a day crashes that I grew to love and admire
It
crashed so much before, I had changed the "Blue screen of death" to the
"Magenta screen of death".
In contrast to the way some others report, I don't have any crashes or
errors. I have IE installed, and regularly use the MSIE browser family.
My system is w98SE + MSIE 5.5. I had some ugly errors for a bit in early
part of 2000, which was when I first began using IE. I do not know, as now,
whether they were due to malware (back then, there was very little warning
about spyware and adware). Or whether they were due to weak system files etc
of IE. The fact that I have no problems at all with IE...I should disclose
that my case possibly might not be a fair one to use. Due to the fact that
I allow sites to run scripting only on a very selective basis. I would
suppose that a lot of the crashes IE users get only happen when scripting
is active ?
As to IEradicator, this morning I managed to extract its scripts, in order
to learn what it does. They're in *.inf format. First thing I noticed
is that the script is hard-coded, does not look in the registry for your
paths. Thus it would not work on my system, since I don't use default paths,
eg "Temporary Internet Files," etc. Beyond that, I haven't yet taken time
to read the scripts in more detail. Each script, the one for 2001 and 2001A,
it's 42k. I have inclination to post them, for those interested, but have
not thought through whether that would be met with interest or approval. If
interest and approval were yes, then, given their size, I'd have to think
about perhaps posting to a test group, in conjunction with dropping the MID
here. Alternative, for anyone interested in the matter, is that I just
describe how I got the scripts extracted, for viewing purposes, without
having to deal with the serious leap of blindly letting them run.
Last thing I did was block or delete all of the following Windows
references - Win Ex, 2EX, Winupdate, OE & IE - with my firewall.
I tell ya though. It doesn't come without anxiety to rid your system of
something that is more invasive than a bucketful of trojans liberally
sprinkled with virus "jimmys" to have peace of mind. So far, so good.
Your firewall blocks, that strikes me the ideal defense strategy, for
where to get your inet security finely honed...
Also changed MSHTML.DLL to MSHTML.OLD as Art says he did a few posts
down.
I guess it depends which programs you run. I have a significant group of
programs that host the MS Browser Control, ones I wouldn't at all want to
disable. (Not just browsers, this group, but offline programs, that involve
functions such as inline display of web documents.) But although it would be
something for my own usage that I'd not want to do, I read with interest
about the two of you conducting this experiment, and that your results so
far are satisfactory.
netscan.research.microsoft.com
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