full-disclosure - IE Web Browser: "Sitting Duck"

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From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (Barry Fitzgerald)
Subject: IE Web Browser: "Sitting Duck"

Frank Knobbe wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 09:27, Barry Fitzgerald wrote:
>  
>
>>Is it impossible to remove easily and difficult to remove cleanly?  Yes...
>>    
>>
>
>Heh... I just noticed (by chance) that there is an option in |Control
>Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Windows Components| to remove Internet
>Explorer (which supposedly "Adds or removes access to Internet Explorer
>from the Start menu and Desktop").
>
>I never thought I see the say where MS makes the removal (or at least
>hiding) of IE an option :)
>
>Cheers,
>Frank
>
>  
>

Does it work now?

It's always been there to my knowledge, but in the past it's never 
actually removed it - just reverted to the prior version.

Which version of Windows are you looking at?

             -Barry