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Title: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: haloboy100 on May 14, 2009, 07:45:06 pm
After re-installing AVG and scanning, I get this after a fresh reboot:
(http://img30.picoodle.com/img/img30/2/5/14/flyboy42/f_internetexpm_a1508a9.jpg)
Guess even Microsoft will admit their browser sucks. Indeed, not using it is protecting my computer.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Solatar on May 14, 2009, 08:03:39 pm
Priceless.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: SpardaSon21 on May 14, 2009, 08:08:06 pm
Nice desktop background.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: blowfish on May 14, 2009, 08:13:49 pm
Internet Explorer is a joke :lol:
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: haloboy100 on May 14, 2009, 08:18:20 pm
Priceless.
That's exactly what I said when I first saw it.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Aurora Paradox on May 14, 2009, 08:26:42 pm
Priceless.
That's exactly what I said when I first saw it.

Yeah that was my first thought as well.  Firefox all the way!
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: colecampbell666 on May 14, 2009, 08:28:02 pm
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,62331.0.html
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: haloboy100 on May 14, 2009, 08:44:02 pm
Yes, I saw. Another excellent find. :P
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: blackhole on May 14, 2009, 08:58:36 pm
lawlz
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Charismatic on May 14, 2009, 09:01:36 pm
I get that error message alot. Hell, i cant even uninstall IE8... its not in the list of programs when i go to Control Pannel> Add and remove programs.

If anyone knows how, let me know. I want to revert to IE 7.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: blowfish on May 14, 2009, 09:11:05 pm
Why use IE in the first place? :wtf:
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: haloboy100 on May 14, 2009, 09:18:28 pm
Why use IE in the first place? :wtf:
Exactly. But, as Charismatic stated, it's not possible to delete it. (as far as I know)
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 15, 2009, 01:29:24 am
Why use IE in the first place? :wtf:

Doesn't eat so much of my active memory game performance is impacted. Unlike Firefox.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: watsisname on May 15, 2009, 04:18:30 am
Your recycle bin is a gunboy?  Lawl.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Grizzly on May 15, 2009, 04:21:22 am
Why use IE in the first place? :wtf:

Doesn't eat so much of my active memory game performance is impacted. Unlike Firefox.

That is because it makes your inactive memory bigger. It's preloaded into the system.

You can by the way, remove it before you instlal windows, using nLite.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Nuke on May 15, 2009, 04:47:06 am
well at least we know that dep works :lol:
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: The E on May 15, 2009, 05:03:38 am
Why use IE in the first place? :wtf:
Exactly. But, as Charismatic stated, it's not possible to delete it. (as far as I know)

It is possible to do so under Windows 7. Go to Add/Remove Programs, click on the "Turn Windows Features On or Off"-Link, and deselect IE8.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Commander Zane on May 15, 2009, 05:35:32 am
Once again this is where I say I don't have the problems with IE that the rest of the general population seems to have.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on May 15, 2009, 06:39:43 am
Once again this is where I say I don't have the problems with IE that the rest of the general population seems to have.

That's the same as me saying that I've never, ever been rammed by Sathanas 3.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: The E on May 15, 2009, 06:47:11 am
Once again this is where I say I don't have the problems with IE that the rest of the general population seems to have.

This is kind ogf the problem with IE. For the End user, it works just fine. But for Web designers, they have (or had) to work around all the little things IE does (or did) wrong. Couple that with the fact that there are still people around who use IE6 (which is worse in terms of standards compliance than any other current Browser), and you have a whole lot of angry web designers.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: portej05 on May 15, 2009, 10:05:39 am
well at least we know that dep works :lol:

But not every DEP error is a problem :P
There was one in ATL a little while ago that manifested when DEP was turned on under XP

EDIT: Found the source The OldNewThing (http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/11/14/6188257.aspx)
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Sushi on May 15, 2009, 11:13:02 am

This is kind of the problem with IE. For the End user, it works just fine. But for Web designers, they have (or had) to work around all the little things IE does (or did) wrong. Couple that with the fact that there are still people around who use IE6 (which is worse in terms of standards compliance than any other current Browser), and you have a whole lot of angry web designers.

Yep. Really, I have no problem with IE7 or IE8. IE6, though, I hate with a fiery passion. :D IE7 and IE8 are fine as long as you set the right doctype so they aren't intentionally being "IE6-stupid."
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Flipside on May 15, 2009, 06:32:44 pm
I'm wondering whether IE is the actual problem, could it be that something is trying to kick off IE in order to access the Internet in some way, and it's that which is triggering the response because the system sees that as an unauthorized access?
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Scotty on May 15, 2009, 07:39:52 pm
Related back to the beginning of the thread:

I was re-installing StarCraft a couple days ago, and I couldn't get it to work right.  I clicked on "diagnose the problem" and it actually came back as saying the VISTA(!) was the problem.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: haloboy100 on May 15, 2009, 07:54:21 pm
I'm wondering whether IE is the actual problem, could it be that something is trying to kick off IE in order to access the Internet in some way, and it's that which is triggering the response because the system sees that as an unauthorized access?
Yeah, AVG is continually reporting infected files every few hours, and one of them being a trojan that has infected a "white listed" file, which is apparently a vital system file that is dangerous to remove. I havn't had any trouble other than a slight performance slowdown and some game crashes from this "virus", though.

It does give me a random beep from time to time, though...the default windows beep you get from like when you're asked a question during installation of a game.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 15, 2009, 09:33:15 pm
That is because it makes your inactive memory bigger. It's preloaded into the system.

The problem with this statement of course being that I can, y'know, look at the running processes and see the lie to it. And also that I should be able to detect a gaming performance drop, which does not occur.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Mongoose on May 15, 2009, 11:27:57 pm
The question then becomes why one would leave a browser window open while gaming, outside of straight-up browser-based games.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 16, 2009, 01:20:18 am
The question then becomes why one would leave a browser window open while gaming, outside of straight-up browser-based games.

So you don't have to find it again, and become inudated with bookmarks either, etc. etc...hell there are things I'll spend days reading between gaming sessions. :P
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: redsniper on May 16, 2009, 01:25:20 am
Because Firefox can't remember what pages were open when you close it. Oh wait...
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: haloboy100 on May 16, 2009, 01:26:08 am
....uh, yes, it does. As well as all the tabs, if you flick on a setting in the options.
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 16, 2009, 01:27:49 am
Because Firefox can't remember what pages were open when you close it. Oh wait...

Effort. :P
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: Mongoose on May 16, 2009, 04:21:06 am
The question then becomes why one would leave a browser window open while gaming, outside of straight-up browser-based games.

So you don't have to find it again, and become inudated with bookmarks either, etc. etc...hell there are things I'll spend days reading between gaming sessions. :P
As someone who has to have well over 1000 bookmarks by now, I fail to see the problem with said inundation. :p
Title: Re: Microsoft finally guilty of their browser.
Post by: haloboy100 on May 16, 2009, 11:32:23 am
I only have, like, five. :rolleyes:

and they're all conveniently placed on my toolbar :P