Junk in IE

Hey I got an additional 'Search the web' bar next to my standard address bar and its taking up alot of room plus i got all these icons at the top I dont want (Smilies,Screensavers,Curor Mania,Games ect)

I wanna get rid of all this crap... Its only appeared today. Thanks

Fritz wrote:

Hey I got an additional 'Search the web' bar next to my standard address bar and its taking up alot of room plus i got all these icons at the top I dont want (Smilies,Screensavers,Curor Mania,Games ect)

I wanna get rid of all this crap... Its only appeared today. Thanks

Best thing to do is pop over to www.getfirefox.com otherwise you will be using third party applications to remove this stuff for over.

Bleh. So helpful.

Grab Spybot Search & Destroy. It'll clean this up for you, no problem.

Jeremy W. wrote:

Bleh. So helpful.

Grab Spybot Search & Destroy. It'll clean this up for you, no problem.

But don't forget to keep running it each time you end up with this crap on your system. 

And don't forget that if you're running XP SP2 this type of activity will largely be stopped. Also, if you increase the security in the Security tab of IE it will also restrict the ability for programs to do this.

FireFox isn't the solution to every problem. It has it's fair share of security issues as well. My hope is that these are fixed before it gets to final release of 1.0.

... if you're running XP SP2 this type of activity will largely be stopped.

Hey, that's a great idea. Will it work for the vast number of users who don't run XP yet?

FireFox will.

markd wrote:

... if you're running XP SP2 this type of activity will largely be stopped.

Hey, that's a great idea. Will it work for the vast number of users who don't run XP yet?

FireFox will.

You guys sure are going after your SpreadFirefox points this week, eh?

You guys sure are going after your SpreadFirefox points this week, eh?

Actually, no. I just thought I'd provide a solution that Microsoft has denied it's own customers.

A solution that was already mentioned. A solution which may not even be RELEVANT since you don't know it happened while visiting a site. He could have installed an app that had the toolbar as a backdoor install.

You really don't know what the situation is since you don't know what caused it, don't know if switching is relevant and generally just don't know.

And since FireFox (fantastic browser that it is) was already mentioned...

I have nothing against FireFox. It's my primary browser at home. But there's no reason for every "Anti-IE" thread to include a dozen "use FireFox" links and comments.

markd wrote:

Actually, no. I just thought I'd provide a solution that Microsoft has denied it's own customers.

MS has not denied its customers a solution. What they have done is supply a free upgrade to SP2, which fixes these problems. Now users do not need to think about firefox. They can safely use IE, and enjoy its superior dhtml rendering speed.

No doubt the anti-MS yahoos will choose to interpret this as a bug in IE but an oversigt or something in Firefox.

Geez, I forgot the link.  Here it is.

phunky_avocado wrote:

No doubt the anti-MS yahoos will choose to interpret this as a bug in IE but an oversigt or something in Firefox.

Ok, so the insert link thingy is not working.  Let's try text:
http://news.com.com/Revenge+of+the+pop-ups/2100-1024_3-5408453.html?tag=nefd.lede

phunky_avocado wrote:

Geez, I forgot the link.  Here it is.

phunky_avocado wrote: No doubt the anti-MS yahoos will choose to interpret this as a bug in IE but an oversigt or something in Firefox.

What they have done is supply a free upgrade to SP2

Free unless you're not using Windows XP. Are there other versions of Windows out there?

The thousands (hundreds of thousands? millions?) of people using any version of Windows prior to XP are currently without any Microsoft Solution to the adware/spyware/popup problem. I was very simply stating that Firefox is available on most of those OSes, and that it solves most of those problems. On what OS is the next version of IE going to be available?

markd wrote:

What they have done is supply a free upgrade to SP2

Free unless you're not using Windows XP. Are there other versions of Windows out there?

The thousands (hundreds of thousands? millions?) of people using any version of Windows prior to XP are currently without any Microsoft Solution to the adware/spyware/popup problem. I was very simply stating that Firefox is available on most of those OSes, and that it solves most of those problems. On what OS is the next version of IE going to be available?

The update to XP SP2 is free. Unlike updates for most other OS's out there.

The millions upon millions of folk who ARE using XP are now well protected (over 100,000,000). Microsoft has done something huge for all of those people.

How is "download firefox" any better than "download spybot", which will actually protect you against more than FireFox will?

Sorry but anti-spyware tools are just becoming a reality on most OS's (including Linux and OS X). Definitely less so than Windows (non XP SP2), but none of the OS's have anything that prevents an installer from dropping extra apps onto your system.

Either way "use FireFox" doesnt' necessarily fix the issue. Especially when it's already been suggested.

Jeremy W. wrote:

The update to XP SP2 is free. Unlike updates for most other OS's out there.

Ok, something of what I'm saying is not registering with you people. XPSP2 is not free for people who have Windows 98. XPSP2 is not free for people who have Windows 98SE. XPSP2 is not free for people who have Windows ME. XPSP2 is not free for people who have Windows 2000.

Should those users upgrade? If they want security, the answer is clearly yes. But it is not FREE.

Anyway, I've spent too much time on this. I agree that Firefox isn't the only answer, and it's very likely not a complete answer for Fritz, so I'll concede your point.

Have a nice day.

I wonder how many companies don't actually use XP - instead they 'downgrade' to Windows 2000 when they get new PC's. So they don't see any benefits from XP SP2 being released.

There are those companies that use Windows 98 as well - if they want to upgrade to XP they probably will need new hardware.

Will be interesting in the future, when companies finally ditch Windows 98. Do they keep the old hardware and use a different OS, or buy new systems with XP? If you want the latest technology from Microsoft, you need more up to date systems. Yet, with the competition you can run the latest technology without needing to upgrade (maybe more RAM, or a slightly faster PIII - but that is cheaper than all new hardware, as you may have spare RAM or parts from PC's that no longer work (bad hard drive, faulty motherboard, not 2k compliant etc)).