[Full-Disclosure] IE Web Browser: "Sitting Duck"

Barry Fitzgerald bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org
Tue Jul 6 17:38:18 BST 2004


Frank Knobbe wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 09:27, Barry Fitzgerald wrote:
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>>Is it impossible to remove easily and difficult to remove cleanly?  Yes...
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>Heh... I just noticed (by chance) that there is an option in |Control
>Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Windows Components| to remove Internet
>Explorer (which supposedly "Adds or removes access to Internet Explorer
>from the Start menu and Desktop").
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>I never thought I see the say where MS makes the removal (or at least
>hiding) of IE an option :)
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>Cheers,
>Frank
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Does it work now?

It's always been there to my knowledge, but in the past it's never 
actually removed it - just reverted to the prior version.

Which version of Windows are you looking at?

             -Barry





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