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IE7 Toolbar Mayhem
nikostheater writes "A user called anyweb tried to infect IE7 with as many toolbars as possible and it's interesting to see what happens and how secure IE7 is.." This is funny if only for the screenshot of a browser window with like 80% of the screen covered with toolbars.
The screenshot reminds me of my mother or my sisters computer every time I go over there. They're always ending up with crap like "mycoolsearch", I did an adaware search and got something like 600 items the first time I tried it. I got fed up, and installed firefox and made IE less obvious on the computers.
I go back two weeks later, and now firefox has a mycoolsearch toolbar! Arrg.
Yes, but that still isn't allowed to be stated in a slashdot summary... I mean think of the group think, won't someone PLEASE think of the groupthink!
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We can expect to see him simulate a viral attack, this will envolve him formatting his hard drive while running IE, removing it and hitting it multiple times with a hammer.
Im not sure what we can expect from that, but I sure cant wait to see!
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The problem is that MS actually makes one of these as well. I believe MSN offers a particularly annoying toolbar for IE.
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No. Like 25% other slashdotters are also irritated.
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I do such cleanings all the time. They invariably start with fdisk and end with a fresh install of firefox and thunderbird. And then I get paid.
Holy crap! I never thought I'd see the day when nearly all of the posts in a thread about a Microsoft product would be *defensive*! Time to clean out the fallout shelter!
Take anything with a reasonable amount of usability, and anyone properly incompetent can manage to mess it up.
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
What's the point of this? A user should be able to screw themself over, once they're aware of and acknowledge the issues - ie dialogue boxes. What next, your rant about how you complain if your computer formats your hard drive if you click "Format" when the dialogue box comes up and explains that "this action will delete all data on this drive"?