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As everyone should know, Internet Explorer is a very insecure browser, and daily use can quickly turn a Microsoft Windows PC into a spyware-ridden, spam-sending slow, unstable abomination.

I don’t use IE at home, because Mozilla Firefox is infinitely better and more secure, but I’ve found that many people, even those otherwise educated and intelligent, think of “the Internet” as “the blue E”, and, when wanting to open a site, open IE without thinking.

So I had to do something about it.

Now, while I think that (as of mid-2005) it is still to early to implement this as official policy in a company (many bad sites or incompetently-designed intranet applications only work with IE - and sometimes only with a particular version), it can be useful in many home / small office networks.

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