[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

This has the potential to be far worse the the GWX campaign ever was.

As @steeviebops pointed out above, changing the search engine is something a PUP or malware would do. (Ask.com toolbar springs to mind.)

How did anyone at Microsoft think this was a good idea?

 

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Cybertooth, Mark

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

If your not directly using Internet Explorer to access the internet, should this be worried about?

I have IE’s outbound connection blocked with Windows Firewall, should I also block the inbound connection as well?

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

Would someone be able to please explain what keeps this from effecting Windows 7?

I feel as if I’ve missed something very obvious in everything I’ve read.

Is it as simple as the Crypto API not working the same between Windows 7 & 10?

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

@cybertooth

Should I add the someonewhocares.org #<localhost> portion into my host file?

What does it do?

Once I figured out how to make the host file save this morning, I went back and added everything I wanted but I skipped the localhost portion in case it was part of why the file wouldn’t save correctly last night.

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

Wouldn’t this be worse since it would happen without the users say-so?

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

They couldn’t do that (even if they actually wanted to), it would mean playing by the same rules as everyone else.

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

In that case I’m leaving it alone, especially considering the issues being reported from using the workaround

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

Wow, I did not expect it to actually be that simple.

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[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

Thanks very much for the link.

After reading the article and the comments, I’ve come to the conclusion that disabling IE11 isn’t worth the complications that may arise from doing so.

As I said in my original post, I have IE’s outbound connection blocked with Windows Firewall and I think I’ll just leave it at that.

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Kirsty

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

EOSnotify tasks were disabled on Sunday.

My PC has been running since 5 AM this morning with no sign of the nag screen.

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OscarCP

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

Ok, that makes sense.

I’ll leave them alone, it was just a brainstorm.

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

I had a weird thought in regards to the # lines.

Wouldn’t it also be a good idea to delete the ones at the beginning and ending of the sections of the list for the things that are meant to blocked as well?

Or do those not matter?

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

Cheers, I’ll do just that.

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

So should I delete this section completely?

#<localhost>
127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain
255.255.255.255	broadcasthost
::1		localhost
127.0.0.1	local
::1		ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0		ip6-localnet
ff00::0		ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1		ip6-allnodes
ff02::2		ip6-allrouters
ff02::3		ip6-allhosts
#fe80::1%lo0	localhost
#</localhost>
Or just the #<localhost> and #</localhost> and leave the rest?

[MoonbearAskWoody Lounger]

Thanks, I’ll do that right now.

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