It is extremely difficult to remove Microsoft IE. Do you know that you can paste a web address into a file explorer in windows, hit 'Go' and pull that web page up in the file explorer window?
They're the same app.
The only way I can think of defeating IE is to deny it access to winsock, but I have no idea how this would be done.
You're right Petronski, it's too integrated to actually "delete" it. I guess I'll just have to delete all the IE shortcuts I can find so I'll have to actually hunt for it if I want to use it. That will give me time to come to my senses, lol.
My IE got hijacked by a conglomeration of adware centered
around "Bargain Buddy" ( It has a little dog icon. )
I ran Spysweeper ( recommended by my ISP ) and it finds
and removes things, but if I run IE again they "come back".
I'm subsisting on Netscape Communicator 4.79 ( which I
prefer ) and Netscape 7.02 ( since Netscape 4 is
"broken". )
IE can be removed from the desktop but not from Windows XP. Its integrated into the Operating System so if you did remove it, parts of Windows XP won't function. Its different from Windows 9X where you could delete the browser without missing anything. The reason Microsoft can't upgrade its browser is there's a lot of Windows OS code that has to be rewritten. You'd think Bill Gates would have kept the two separate. And now he's kicking himself for that mistake.