The Weekend, part 1: Computer

[bobquasit]

On Saturday we had to make an emergency trip over to Teri's mother's place so I could look at her computer. She thought she had a bad virus. Since I'd installed all of her security software, I was concerned.

It turned out, though, that she wasn't infected. She was getting an attempt to infect her system, one of those browser-exploit bogus

Comments

[oldwolf]

Yes, but either way you're still using IE, as it's integrated into Windows and is used to browse folders and files. So everything else is a shell on top of it regardless of what one does.

Wanna see something neat? Open a folder with the address bar enabled and type in a web address and seewhat happens? Your folder will become a webpage.

[bobquasit]

As I understand it, Chrome Frame isn't just a shell - it replaces some IE code with Chrome code, particularly for rendering. Several articles have said that it effectively "guts" IE, which sounds good to me. :D

I knew about that address bar thing. It IS neat, although I rarely use it.

[oldwolf]

I couldn't replace the IE code because that's the browser for Windows, and Windows wouldn't work if it did. You'd basically be replacing the entire core O/S. But if it did, you'd be using the Chrome I/O to browse your folders. That's how integrated IE and the Windows browser is.

[bobquasit]

I installed it on my mother-in-law's computer, and she's had no problems. And the articles I've read all say that it replaces some - not all - of IE's code. That's all I know!