Let's face it! Internet Explorer has been consistently under attack. It's not the fault of developers or the design teams. Security holes exist everywhere.
For example:
If I purchase an alarm system for my home and it covers all the doors and windows great! I'm protected!
Three days later my home is burglarized and I'm thinking, "Man! How did they get in?" Then I notice the attic vent in the back of the house was removed. So i'm left with an insurance claim and the knowledge that I need to include the attic vent in my alarm coverage.
Internet Explorer has evolved in just such a way. It's not possible to know every exploit before the product is released. They can often test with all known exploits and security holes however that level of testing cannot cover the unknown. While many talented people test these programs, there is no way to know it all ahead of time. If so, I'd be rich and you'd be reading someone else's blog.
So in interest of keeping IE clean I have created this article to assist you.
There are a variety of toolbars available and many are useful tools for their particular pages and formats. There are some that have trouble or will redirect the user to search results even though a valid URL (internet address) is used. This makes the web surfing experience harder and consequently causes problem on pages where you normally get redirected.
To combat this problem and keep IE trimmed to fewer security problems, you can follow the steps below to clean up and remove extra toolbars and spyware.
Step one Prepare IE and find the possible problems.
Close all Internet Explorer Windows.
Open Intneret Explorer:.
Click Tools then select ;Manage Add-Ons.
In the Add-Ons Window there should be a list of items that are currently loaded in Internet Explorer.
Any toolbar you do not use with regularity should be disabled. To disable an addon Highlight the toolbar or addon and select Disable near the bottom of the window. Highlight the next toolbar you want to remove and repeat, click on Disable.
Other items can be disabled but be careful. Some are helpful. Keep the following if they are there.
Other items you should disable are:
For example:
If I purchase an alarm system for my home and it covers all the doors and windows great! I'm protected!
Three days later my home is burglarized and I'm thinking, "Man! How did they get in?" Then I notice the attic vent in the back of the house was removed. So i'm left with an insurance claim and the knowledge that I need to include the attic vent in my alarm coverage.
Internet Explorer has evolved in just such a way. It's not possible to know every exploit before the product is released. They can often test with all known exploits and security holes however that level of testing cannot cover the unknown. While many talented people test these programs, there is no way to know it all ahead of time. If so, I'd be rich and you'd be reading someone else's blog.
So in interest of keeping IE clean I have created this article to assist you.
There are a variety of toolbars available and many are useful tools for their particular pages and formats. There are some that have trouble or will redirect the user to search results even though a valid URL (internet address) is used. This makes the web surfing experience harder and consequently causes problem on pages where you normally get redirected.
To combat this problem and keep IE trimmed to fewer security problems, you can follow the steps below to clean up and remove extra toolbars and spyware.
Step one Prepare IE and find the possible problems.
Close all Internet Explorer Windows.
Open Intneret Explorer:.
Click Tools then select ;Manage Add-Ons.
In the Add-Ons Window there should be a list of items that are currently loaded in Internet Explorer.
Any toolbar you do not use with regularity should be disabled. To disable an addon Highlight the toolbar or addon and select Disable near the bottom of the window. Highlight the next toolbar you want to remove and repeat, click on Disable.
Other items can be disabled but be careful. Some are helpful. Keep the following if they are there.
- Adobe Systems, Inc, Shockwave Flash Object
- Adobe Systems Adobe PDF link helper.
- Diagnose Connection Problems
- Groove GFS Browser Helper object
- Java(tm) Plug-in 2 SSV Helper class
- JQSIEStartDetectorimplied class
- Research
- Send to OneNote
- Sun Java Console.
- Also any Security related programs you might have installed.
Other items you should disable are:
- Ask toolbar (Sometimes it just breaks Internet Explorer)
- MyWebSearch Toolbars (this is billed as spyware in their user license agreement)
- Gamevance toolbars
- Any games toolbars or Social networking toolbars such as Zynga, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, etc.
- Limewire toolbars or bearshare toolbars/
- Items that appear like the following {0ACB0922-09388271ac}
Once you have disabled everything you feel you need to disable we have to remove the programs we're no longer using. Please select the correct operating system below to find out how to remove programs.
Windows 7
After the programs are removed, our next step is to reset Internet Explorer.
To reset Internet Explorer,
After the programs are removed, our next step is to reset Internet Explorer.
To reset Internet Explorer,
- Click Tools> Internet Options.
- The Internet Options dialog box appears.
- Advanced tab.
- Under Reset Internet Explorer settings, click Reset. Then click Reset again.
- When Internet Explorer finishes resetting the settings, click Close in the Reset Internet Explorer Settings dialog box.
- Close out of ALL internet windows.
Now you should be able to go back to Internet Explorer and surf almost spyware/adware free.
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