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Reinstalling Internet Explorer (Killed by Spyware) Recently my Internet Explorer had been giving me lots of errors while surfing, errors that I have not been getting on my other workstations. I concluded that the spyware (which has been horrible lately, hasn't it been?) that seems to find its way in through pop-up ads and whatnot have damaged components of my browser... I may use FireFox frequently, but as a developer and a manager of developers, I need a good, stable install of MSIE on my primary workstation. A quick search on the Microsoft Knowledgebase revealed a solution that worked rather well for me. I change a single value in a registry key, and voila... XP doesn't know that MSIE is installed, and it lets me re-install the browser. Since I keep my IEAK up to date, I reinstalled from the up to date flat files I keep on a network share. Reboot, Windows Update, no more problems. MS KB Article 318378 Removing Spyware I use four tools to keep SpyWare off of my system: Posted by Michael at June 27, 2004 01:49 PM |
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