Ben wrote...

>Get HijackThis (google for it, or download.com)
>You can turn off all & any of the embedded IE parasites, not to mention
>just about anything else.
>I also use it to turn off all those annoying systray icons that that
>_every_ program installs these days.
>Then use spybot to immunize and track every change so you can keep them
>from coming back.

Thanks, I was not aware of HijackThis; I'll give it a try, as it
sounds like a good thing to have.

Dave

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