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IE7 Toolbar Mayhem

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-ideas-are-fun dept.

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.

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  1. FTA by big_groo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "And considering what I put Internet Explorer 7 through, the reset tool did a very very very good job, see below, just one toolbar left, and it was Yahoo's, maybe that's a telling result ?"

    We'll see how well this works a year after release. That said, it's about damn time MS did something about IE.

  2. Re:Um... by whoever57 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I think the better point is that at the end, even after screwing up IE 7 so badly, the author was able to remove all the toolbars with relative ease (save the Yahoo toolbar
    This does look like MS has improved security in IE. IE7 made some of the installations sufficiently difficult that a naiive user would not be able to complete them.

    The real question is how long will this situation persist? Will spyware vendors find means to disable the security features of IE7, or will IE7 continue to be resistant?

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