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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: paintmaw on April 24, 2001, 07:58:00 PM
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I just dl'ed the newest IE trying to get rid of this damn GOHIP thing that keeps popping up advertisements every 20 seconds . Is there anyway to get rid of this annoying crap
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( I have ALWAYS HATED IE , why do companies insist on using it ) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif) .... must be cheaper
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They use it so that Microshaft can't play the "we cant help you its your browsers incompatability" game when they have a problem with the OS
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Try Opera (http://www.opera.com)
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Originally posted by paintmaw:
( I have ALWAYS HATED IE , why do companies insist on using it ) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif) .... must be cheaper
Because it's much more compliant with W3C standards than Nutscrape. What were you using before? I've heard good things about Opera and NeoPlanet didn't seem to bad.
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Golden Rule: DO NOT UPGRADE MS products unless it is extremely necessary (aka, product is beyond 4 years old).
Do NOT get the updates from MS website. Let it be, resist the temptation, save your pc.
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I like IE pretty much
at least its much better than netscrap
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Opera is great!! Been using it for months.
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Check out both of these "articles" for instructions on removal of GoHip. Hope it helps. BTW, I found this info by simply typing "remove uninstall GoHip" in to my search window. http://www.adcop.org/smallfish/gohip.htm (http://www.adcop.org/smallfish/gohip.htm)
http://www.thecomplaintstation.com/w/_wwwgohipcom/0000001f.htm (http://www.thecomplaintstation.com/w/_wwwgohipcom/0000001f.htm)
As far as the IE/Netscape debate, I had been a hardcore Netscape fan since back in the 1.x versions, but in the past year I found Netscape crashes way too often, and IE has been rock solid (as browsers go anyway). Just my 2 pennies worth. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
{edit} My son came in as I was reading my posted reply, and I asked him about GoHip, as I thought I remembered him having it on his machine. Needless to say, his immediate tirade about it matches everyone else's feelings. He said that a "band aid" fix is to hit the Stop button before it loads, but this only kills the ads, etc. Your email program, default start page, etc. are all still hacked, and would require the above remedies.
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Skorpyon
~900th Bloody Jaguars~
"Feel the Sting......"
[This message has been edited by Skorpyon (edited 04-24-2001).]
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Originally posted by paintmaw:
( I have ALWAYS HATED IE , why do companies insist on using it ) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif) .... must be cheaper
'cause it's nicer than Nutscrape. I was die hard against IE (because it sucked) until version 5 came out. I hesitantly switched to it and I doubt I'll change anytime soon.
SOB
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Thanks guys <S>
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IE 5.01 SP2 works pretty fine, 5.5 is murder.. its completely buggy.
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I'm running IE 6.0 Preview and it works great. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
I became an IE fan with IE 4.0 and I've never looked back. I occasionally check out Nutscrape, but it's always a buggy POS in comparison. Opera is cool, but IE works great for me so I don't need to switch and IE is integrated with my shell, which rocks.
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Sean "Lephturn" Conrad - Aces High Chief Trainer
A proud member of the mighty Flying Pigs
http://www.flyingpigs.com
Check out Lephturn's Aerodrome (http://users.andara.com/~sconrad/) for AH articles and training info!
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I switched to I.E. at version 5.0 and found it far more stable than any version of Netscape. I haven't really looked back since. Among the classes I teach is some web editing, and I can tell you it is far easier to get a page to display properly using I.E. than Netscape.
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Lephturn you are one brave individual..
From the reviews of people that have been testing the beta, I got the impression that it brings much more trouble than anything else.
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Title: IE can Divulge Location of Cached Content
Released: 06 March 2001
Revised: 20 April 2001 (version 2.0)
Software: Microsoft Windows Script Host 5.1 and 5.5
Impact: Run code of attacker's choice
Bulletin: MS01-015
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Issue:
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The IE security architecture provides a caching mechanism that is
used
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user's local machine. The purpose of the cache is to obfuscate the
physical location of the cached content, in order to ensure that
the
web page or HTML e-mail will work through the IE security
architecture
to access the information. This ensures that the uses of the
information can be properly restricted.
A vulnerability exists because it is possible for a web page or
HTML
e- mail to learn the physical location of cached content. Armed
with
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A variant of the Frame Domain Verification vulnerability discussed
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vulnerability could enable a malicious web site operator to open
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to
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2000
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attacker could start a session using the logging option, then
stream
an
executable file onto the user's system in a location that would
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that
can be
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Heretic" <Heretic@art-museum.org>
To: "Thugs" <subgenius@armchair.mb.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 2:25 AM
Subject: [SubG] Geek: The Devil's Tools
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> So we know about that Outlook Express thing where you can get
nailed
> with
> a virus-infected attachment without having to open it. Anybody
> know the fix for that?
>
> -Tick
> uses somethin' else
>
>
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Long Live Mozilla!!
Using Mozilla 0.8.1 here (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
shdo
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I used the "remove GoHip.exe ,,worked great and message board really works good with IE , I still can't bring myself to delete Netscape though . Thanks again
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All,
I checked about the gohip crap since it was on all my e-mails. I tried the fix in the web page listed in an earlier thread. It didn't remove the gohip "ad". I saw it was a simple signature on the e-mail options that I learned about by reading the remove instructions. I deleted that sig and now my e-mails no longer have that crappy gohip ad.
If you have the gohip on your e-mail go to the signature sapot in IE5.5 and simply remove the sig.
Mav
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IE will always be my browser of choice.
What other browser lets you cache passworded porn sites (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
STREAMING PORN AND IE 4-EVA!!!