Quote: "Now will you stop with these attacks and rather discuss like an adult?"
I appologise - I am sometimes a little sarcy
But the point still remains. Even switching the PC off whilest it is not shut down still has quite a risk of damaging the Filesystem (although you accept that by admitting "the risk would be minimal").
Personally, I'd never go as far as deleting software which is integral to windows, let alone "pulling the plug" at a point where windows is likely to be recovering from someone deleting a core application.
I can see the logic for what you're doing - but there must be cleaner and less risky ways of doing it and I certainly question the sanity of anyone who does anything like that on the grounds the
"Grandma" said so (thats nothing personal against you!).
Another thing to bear in mind is that IE actually doesn't get infected by Spyware unless you visit a site that gives you spyware OR you install something yourself that infects it. The only reason browsers like FF or Opera dont get effects so much are:
1) Far fewer people use them (last I heard, its something like a 70-30 split of IE:non-IE ). Therefore if you're gonna make malware then make it effect the majority.
2) FF (and Opera? I dont know) dont natively support ActiveX which is one method spyware uses to get in.
I've always believed there is no protection against a stupid user. You can put as many firewalls, virus checkeds and spam filters on a machine as you like - but if they chose to click that flashing button which claims to increase their "potential", then there is bugger all you can do about it (IE or not!)
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