An interesting little program...

[kjg]

that I thought the folks here might be interested in:

http://www.98lite.net/ieradicator.html

"IEradicator is tiny, script that uses the Windows setup engine to surgically remove Internet Explorer versions 3 through 6.0 from Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium and Windows 2000(sr1).

If you are one of the 70+% for which IE is the browser that floats your boat you can reinstall the version you prefer. If not, then you can bask in the inner glow of knowing you just secured your PC from all known and unknown, past and future, IE security bugs while claiming back 30+MB of closet space. Isn't it nice to have the choice?"

You don't have an evil grin icon, so I'll try to make my own

}:->

Karen

[jtpenrod]

Using IEradicator is an excellent idea if you use Winders. Not only for the added security, but also to rid yourself of the A Number One cause of BSODs. With IE gone, you'll have far fewer crashes and lock-ups. How that piece of shit ever saw the light of day on any system is beyond me.  :confused:

[dbl221]

cool program.

Does anyone know if Mozilla or any OpenSource browser runs on windows??

  :rolleyes:

[kjg]

quote:Originally posted by dbl221:
cool program.

Does anyone know if Mozilla or any OpenSource browser runs on windows??

   :rolleyes:  

Buy Opera! It's worth it! It even has it's own integtrated mail client, so you don't need Outlook Express either. But if you don't want to buy it, they have an ad-supported free version. The banner ad is the ONLY difference between the free and paid version.

http://www.opera.com/index.html

My one peeve with Opera is that there's no spell checker. But there's a shareware ($5) utility called All Purpose Spell Checker (APSC) that works pretty well with it. Unfortunately, the domain has been stolen and now leads to a porn site, so you have to download it from a mirror.

Here's one with a review: http://www.geocities.com/horsebagger/spellcheck.html

And here's an automatic ftp download:
http://www.programfiles.com/download.asp?ID=136&session=916089779

Karen

[Centurian]

Hey,


 

quote:Originally posted by dbl221:
cool program.

Does anyone know if Mozilla or any OpenSource browser runs on windows??

   :rolleyes:  

Mozilla runs perfectly under windows. I used it all the time before I switched to Linux.

[iancom]

I must admit to having only briefly tried Opera, so I don't really know about that.

When I'm not using Lynx (looks to passers-by at work like you're doing something complicated and technical when you're really reading SlashDot...) I use Mozilla on all my desktop environments including Windows 2000 and 98.

Very few crashes (though not unknown on Win or Linux) and does everything I want from a browser. And this is before they've even released a 1.0 version!

One of the things I like the most about it is the ability to open up links in a new 'tab' within your existing browser window rather than ending up with twenty browser windows cluttering up your desktop.

http://www.mozilla.org/ for all platforms...

K-Meleon is also quite a nice small-footprint browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine if you've got a low-spec PC...

[ISX]

What does this do exactly? It removes IE, 6 too? And it removes all the shit with it like the hidden files?

[iancom]

In most cases, simply not using Internet Explorer should deal with your hidden files... it can't save them out of your reach if they're never going through IE in the first place.

Of course it's better for you to get rid of IE altogether since its security vulnerabilities are all still there lurking in some obscure code running in the background. And of course you can never quite tell when it'll decide to re-associate itself as the default browser again.

[Calum]

I think to be on the safe side:
1. remove IExplore with this little IEradicator program
2. Get a printout of the r1ddler's secret files article and follow the instructions step by step
3. get Opera, or Mozilla or whatever else.

This way, even if the hidden files are still kicking around after step 1, step 2 will sort them out and no mistake.

I recommend Opera. On windows (but not on Mac) it has that excellent thing that IanC mentions where you only get 1 window, but each new window opens in a "tab", if you've ever used M$ Word (shudder), then you are familiar with this idea.

Haven't tried Lynx or Mozilla yet, but it might be worth getting them in addition to Opera, since as Karen says, the free version of Opera has a banner ad in the toolbar, which can get a bit annoying, although it never bothered me much...
Opera saves a "mystery history" file too, but it is VERY easy to manage and VoidMain and a couple of others answer this query in another forum somewhere on here...

[dbl221]

Hey gang for some reason Galeon is having difficulty acessing .org sites......Mozilla of course has no such troubles....????
What gives.

Lynx sucks........thats all I have to say  

[voidmain]

lynx is still great for reading html documentation from a shell.  And it can be used in scripts very easily, and has lots of command line parameters that allow you to do things you just can't do with regular browsers.  It's obviously not a first choice for your daily web browsing but it works better than anything else for "some" tasks.

[Centurian]

Hey,

I tried lynx the other day and it definitely reminded me of the old Lynx bbs software that I used to use under dos years ago. I don't know if it is by the same person but it is simular.

As to my humble opinion Mozilla kicks ass over every other browser I have tried although I have to say Konqueror is pretty cool. As far Galeon I noticed that it did not like the .org extension also that is one of the reasons I quit using it.

[Calum]

quote:By Robert Vamosi, AnchorDesk.com
Is it time to dump Internet Explorer?
Microsoft's popular Web browser is riddled with security holes -- some of which the software giant has yet to patch. How can you protect yourself?

click here to read what Mr Vamosi has to say regarding the amazing "M$ integrated desktop" and Internet Explorer

[badkarma]

quote:Originally posted by dbl221:

Lynx sucks........thats all I have to say    

Just tell that to a visualy impaired computer user who wants to access the internet without going through the hassle to use IE with speech software ....

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:

click here to read what Mr Vamosi has to say regarding the amazing "M$ integrated desktop" and Internet Explorer

Ya know what bothers me about that article?  It didn't seem to bother the author that MSN Messenger is hard coded to give up your contact and email address information to microsoft.com, hotmail.com, and msn.com.  To me *that* is worse than the bug/hole.  I'm glad I don't use that spyware crap.