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WHY do people refuse to stop using internet exploder??? Do they get a thrill from all the spyware and malware it allows in??? Does a slow computer make you happy??? Has no-one figured out MS just wants to keep taking your hard earned money??? And if it's not MS taking your money it's your computer repair guy for cleaning up your PC....... like Rickard said - firefox

Almost ALL viruses, vulnerability scripts and malware are written to take advantage of the MS operating system (if you can call it that) and it's heavily integrated components such as internet exploder (it didn't get that nickname for nothing).
When 95% of the world runs on it, you'd be a fool to write malware for anything else.
Sure, you can keep using IE forever, and may never get bitten, or ever have problems, but the second you do, it'll be due to an MS IE vulnerability - I can guarantee you that. And it's like sitting on a time bomb, you don't know WHEN you just know it WILL happen. Unfortunately, none of you have the ability to foresee when you are about to click a link that sends you to a website with bad code, and by the time you know you have it, your personal information has already been divulged to those that wanted it in the first place. You may say " it won't happen to me" - so did my boss - identity theft at it's best - oh, BTW - once he got bitten - he did stop using IE.
The problem with MS is that it's profit driven - just get the product to market so Bill and co. can get even bigger wallets, look at shista - as ms put it - the most secure OS ever! biggest laugh ever more like it - as soon as it hit shelves, MS realized their meager attempts at testing it's security were nothing compared to real world exposure, before they knew it they had a bigger fiasco on their hands than all their prior blunders (and there were many) combined. It made Millenium look like a Ferrari!
Industry (which tends to be in bed with MS) even refused to put it on their systems because customers refused to buy the systems!
Shista is almost at it's end of life now - soon to be replaced with another wonder child I'm sure judging from their track record, however, to this day - industry and marketplace is refusing it - to this day - you can buy the XP roll back (which is STILL being supported although it's life cycle was supposed to be done before now) - sure - MS finally got to ship with Shista preinstalled but was forced to supply a rollback option - THAT'S how bad their product is. It makes driving an out of warranty car from GM look like a pleasant experience.

All you IE users - do me a favor - download this:
http://download.cnet.com/...p;subj=dl&tag=button
I promise it won't bite you or harm your computer, update it, run a full scan and see what it finds. Then switch to FF or Opera or Safari stop using IE (just delete all the shortcuts to it) and run this program in 2 months time.

MOTS - I did not link you to the registry optimizer, I linked you to "malwarebyte's anti malware program". What you did is a classic move that can get even more spyware onto your system, you did not read the page, you just clicked on what you "THOUGHT" you should click on and ended up clicking on an advertisement, NOT the download I sent you to - I have no control over that - you do. I highly recommend going back to the link I provided and clicking the download now (3.4mb) button to get what I recommended, then come back and tell us they are charging you to clean your computer. Oh, BTW - it'll clean up what the "registry optimizer" left behind as well.... I would not link you to something that will charge you to fix your system. Unfortunately, too many people make this mistake because they are not inet educated.
If a page says "welcome malwarebytes anti malware users" and you end up downloading and installing a program called "registry optimizer", warning bells should be going off that you might have clicked the wrong link..........
Funny how it always ends up being someone else's fault though......just like the old:

"my buddy came over and started surfing porn, now my pc is all messed up!" somehow, "you" standing behind your buddy saying "oh yeah!!!!! get me MORE! More!, I say....." had nothing to do with any of it - it was all the buddy's fault.......