Can someone help me get rid of IE Explorer, it constantly gives my girlfriend pop-ups, I got her using Mozilla, but yet she still gets ie popups all the time. Thanks.
Before posting anything though, download HiJackThis. Rename the file hijackthis.exe to something else with a .exe extension (the reason: many kinds of malware know about hijackthis.exe and will deliberately hide themselves from it if they see it running.) Post the log in the forums and let some of us take a look at it.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
By the way, you cant remove it. It comes with Windows operating system, and you need it for things like microsoft update, since it can only use IE, not mozila. Also, the pop-ups are malware related, it has nothing to do with IE.
remember that the court case was about other browsers access to xp & not just internet explorer. microsoft daid that ie was intergrated into xp & couldn't be removed without messing up windows. professor showed it can be removed & windows can still work properly. as for the windows updates i don't know.
