[antiRepublicrat]

"The best course of action would be to format your drive and install Debian/Mandrake" in response to an IE our Outlook Express bug; as if IE or Outlook Express were equivalent to "Windows" and the only solution were to replace it with "Linux". See what I mean

This is an overly extreme solution too often suggested by Linux zealots. But in this case only a partial move away from Microsoft is necessary -- dump both and use Mozilla. Wait, you can't dump IE, oops. But you can cut your exposure a bit by at least not using it.

[Bush2000]

This is an overly extreme solution too often suggested by Linux zealots.

You don't have to look too hard to see the folks who recommend this kind of nonsense almost constantly.

But in this case only a partial move away from Microsoft is necessary -- dump both and use Mozilla. Wait, you can't dump IE, oops. But you can cut your exposure a bit by at least not using it.

You can certainly disable IE with the "Set Access and Defaults" tool.