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Offline Giraffe

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Avast News and IE
« on: March 28, 2009, 10:04:30 AM »
When Avast poppoed up to tell me about April 1st. (Conficker, I suppose) I clicked to open it.
In the resultant box is "Read more..." so I clicked and it opened IE.

Now, I have IE blocked from getting out - it really is too stupid to be let loose - so got no further.

What sort of link is "Read more..." and how can I get it to open Opera (or FF if it must)?
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2009, 01:41:32 PM »
Quote from: Giraffe on March 28, 2009, 10:04:30 AM
Now, I have IE blocked from getting out
What exactly do you mean with IE blocked?
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2009, 03:59:35 PM »
Presumably blocked iexplore.exe in his firewall as I have explorer.exe blocked (So windows explorer is denied internet access).
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2009, 07:31:25 PM »
Quote from: DavidR on March 28, 2009, 03:59:35 PM
Presumably blocked iexplore.exe in his firewall as I have explorer.exe blocked (So windows explorer is denied internet access).

Yes, exactly.

Most associations have been changed to point at Opera; links in Thunderbird won't open but those in Dialog and SharpReader will. yet some links from updating and 'news' etc. insist on IE - very uncivilised.
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2009, 07:42:13 PM »
For the most part the links within avast should open in the default browser but there are a few that for whatever reason open IE spit.
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2009, 09:53:09 PM »
The news link seems to be "one of those few".  FF is my default browser, but the Avast news
wants to open only with IE (which I have set to deny all connections in ZA).  Where is the latest
news link located and will this slight problem be corrected in future versions?
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2009, 03:11:26 AM »
Quote from: ace2701 on March 28, 2009, 09:53:09 PM
will this slight problem be corrected in future versions?
I hope so... except for ActiveX, I see no reason for not using default browser. Scripts and flash things could be as the user set the browsers to be.
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2009, 01:07:23 PM »
ActiveX is a good reason for not using IE (yes, I know that it can be disabled, but...).

I've an nLited version of XP with IE removed but haven't yet found the courage to install it!
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2009, 04:57:37 PM »
Well I don't know how they remove IE as it is an integral part of the OS it is used for more than just browsing. The windows explorer file structure display uses it, so to does the display of help (.chm) files, as does Outlook Express for the email Preview window.

I'm sure there are other things also, so nlite probably doesn't completely remove IE just the browser element.
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2009, 06:00:13 PM »
Quote from: Giraffe on March 29, 2009, 01:07:23 PM
I've an nLited version of XP with IE removed
How are you updating Windows? It's worse to not have IE than do not have the Windows Updates...
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2009, 07:09:30 PM »
You don't actually need IE if you are using the auto update part of windows update, it doesn't use your browser. If you visit the windows update to manually download, then yes you do need it.
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2009, 07:40:09 PM »
The iNews viewer is IE OCX; that's why the links are opened in IE. I asked Vlk - and it seems this won't be changed in avast! 4.x.

As for removing the IE completely from Windows - IE is listed in system requirements for avast! installation, so you shouldn't be surprised that some things wouldn't work.
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2009, 07:55:31 PM »
Quote from: igor on March 29, 2009, 07:40:09 PM
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As for removing the IE completely from Windows - IE is listed in system requirements for avast! installation, so you shouldn't be surprised that some things wouldn't work.


Could this at least be some of the reason why a few have mysterious problems with avast!, downloading avast! with an alternate browser ??? ::) :P ;D
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2009, 08:02:50 PM »
No, this has nothing to do with downloads; only stuff like iNews viewer, help displaying, ...
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Re: Avast News and IE
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2009, 11:24:00 PM »
Quote from: Tech on March 29, 2009, 06:00:13 PM
Quote from: Giraffe on March 29, 2009, 01:07:23 PM
I've an nLited version of XP with IE removed
How are you updating Windows? It's worse to not have IE than do not have the Windows Updates...

As I said, I've not installed it. Since SP3 I've not done any updates - MS doesn't seem to like my XP :(
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