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I did that once to my father. He insisted that IE was fine and he didn't want Mozilla, but hated popups & spyware - so he ran like 4 other programs to stop popups, find spyware and whatnot.

Anyhow, I installed firefox, then installed the firefoxie theme that skins ff to look like IE, and changed the FF icon to the IE one. He didn't know the difference, except he thought his anti-popup software was working better than ever. When I told him he'd been using Mozilla he was surprised, pleased and stuck with FF (but ditched the IE theme).

This too slips right past Internet security packages such as Norton and McAfee. For the money people pay for AV protection the vendors really need to get their act together in my opinion.

But this is where the issue lies and why IMO viruses are of virtually no threat anymore, it's going to be all ad/spyware from here on. For instance, I finished up a cleanup of a machine yesterday. Went through it with 1 AV scanner, and 7 different AntiSpyware tools, plus had to go in by hand and do manual removals. 1 virus, over 36 different ad/spyware programs from over 900 traces. Norton was of course expired and hadn't been updated in 8 months.

When the virus fight used to be AV Companies vs. Johnny Scriptkiddy, it's now AV Companies vs. Permission Based Marketing (read: Adware) companies, or an army of zombie bots controlled by the Russian Mafia.

Companies like Symantec, Mcafee, and Microsoft are very careful to step on toes in labeling other companies products as ad/spyware. Those very companies profiting from the adware also have their own army of lawyers and will file suit against anyone who dare defile their product! After all, you read the EULA right?

So when a customer tells me she still has Norton and she wants to know why she is still getting popups, I have to explain to her what the difference between viruses and adware, and why Norton just plain sucks for the new threats we face.

Never thought I would wish for the days of Melissa again, lol

BTW, Sometimes after a cleanup I install MS AntiSpy and Firefox with the IE Theme (http://www.firefoxie.net/). Just change that blue "e" to point to FF, and they're just a bit more secure.

this is for you:
FirefoxIE7 (via Make Firefox Look Like Internet Explorer )

Oops, wrong link from Google. This is what you want: http://www.firefoxie.net/

http://www.firefoxie.net/

What I really need, is a firefox theme that looks like IE...

and a desktop theme that looks like XP.

Enjoy.

Here's an IE skin for Firefox:

http://www.firefoxie.net/

http://firefoxie.net/ Too late.

well if you copy the script found at http://www.firefoxie.net/ into a simple on click stop for firefox extensions and themes

there a preloader for firefox.

and there are light weight versions of firefox about that can run on portable devices.

There's also an IE themed firefox

Or how about Firefoxie?

Yeah, and IEize Firefox with FirefoxIE. They won't notice at all they're not in IE.

http://www.firefoxie.net/

Just make a distribution of the FirefoxIE customisation of Firefox and most people wont know the differance.

http://www.firefoxie.net/

My Wife only worked out it was Firefox after using it for a day or two becuse of the Tabbed Browsing and Bookmark Toolbar .