How do I get IE 8 OFF MY COMPUTER! It SUCKS!

[bxgy]

You should try pchelpforum.com. You might get help quicker.

Another absolutely beautiful answer. My, you people are very sharp. As a matter of fact that is where I go http://www.pchelpforum.com/ when I need help and not want any snide remarks. Thank you for your time and I hope you have many opportunities to make people who need help, feel like you are actually interested in helping them.

[kpac]

No problem.

[Quantos]

Another absolutely beautiful answer. My, you people are very sharp. As a matter of fact that is where I go http://www.pchelpforum.com/ when I need help and not want any snide remarks. Thank you for your time and I hope you have many opportunities to make people who need help, feel like you are actually interested in helping them.

So, today you're just slumming?
*feels so privileged*

[Allan]

Let it go guys.

[kpac]

All the links should be removed.

[Allan]

In my opinion that would be petty. He expressed his view, he posted his suggested alternative, and leaving it up shows a this site has some class - again, in my opinion. If this were tweaks I'd leave it up and quietly pat myself on the back for doing so

[kpac]

Okay, I suppose that makes sense.
It's just like an extra linkback from Google's perspective.

[BC_Programmer]

I see references made to snide comments... how is stating a opinion as such a snide comment? (No really, while I can see an Implication being drawn regarding the off-topic conversation as applying to the OP, mine, at least, were merely an observation; the people I discussed where otherwise smart people- friends even; I was merely making an observation about curious things that occured with them while they used a computer; something I personally attribute to being way to careful to not press the wrong button; a good quality to some extent, but not in the extent I witnessed! .

regarding any other forum being "better", well, that's just silly, and; as was said, an opinion; perhaps even a biased one. Now, certainly, they do the very same thing that is done here; but really? I doubt it's much different. Only one forum that I am a member of (Although, the total is only a handful) had issues that could be traced back to moderation (from what I could tell,TDWTF forums had a few issues a few years back... but I wasn't a member then by any means); and while there certainly have been stints here between specific members there certainly has never been any purposed ill-will towards visitors, at least that I've seen; unless of course they are spammers or known trolls; this is unlikely to be much different from any other forum.

Either way... I also recommend Firefox, or any other browser (except chrome), myself. However, switching the browser would only be the first step; they would still need to revert to IE7, something I had to do on my Vista machine. (my lyrics plugin for WinAmp displayed "page not displayed", and loads of issues with Compiled HTML files, which I  use heavily; this is despite my main browser being Firefox. reverting to IE7 solved these issues.

Now, that being said, the original issue appeared to have been link redirection; as far as I am aware, upgrading to IE8 from IE7 wouldn't be enough to cause this sort of issue; and the download request by the browser indicates an unrecognized file type, something that might occur if a URL is redirected via the hosts file to another IP (possibly a trojan downloader IP) that automatically tries to send a malicious package.

Now, as stated before, these issues can be circumvented by using Firefox, but that's just tiptoeing around the problem; there is still an infection. While I must second the advice to use Firefox as a main browser myself, I must also reiterate that the original issue doesn't appear to be wholly caused merely by IE.

[CBMatt]

What do want to do...ruin the economy ? ?

Not sure how it is on your side of the pond, but our economy is already ruined.  I would actually like to see a major drop in people using the internet and computers in general.

Yes, in my opinion. I have to say that this forum is moderated by genuinely arrogant "geniuses" who would rather talk about their intelligence than actually try to help people.

For the record, you weren't speaking to any moderators, but I'm glad you think so highly for us.  And despite that high horse you so gloriously ride, you didn't help anymore than anyone else.  In fact, the only useful post I found in this thread was from cruisin702:

Run a check with SuperAntiSpyware AND Malwarebytes
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html

The OP should take this advice.

BTW, why isn't the link removed?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I personally don't see much reason in doing so.  We're not in competition with other sites, nor does the forum make any sort of profit.  And to be perfectly honest, I'd be just fine if about half of our members would move on to another site.  But I just don't like people much.  That's why I'm a moderator.

As a matter of fact that is where I go when I need help and not want any snide remarks.

And you come here to argue?  If you dislike it here so much, we'd be happy to fix that for you.

[Imran619]

Yeah choose Mozilla Firefox im using it, I did use Opera but that changed my settings -_-

[mingbai]

Close all programs.
Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
Click Add or Remove Programs.
In the list of currently installed programs, click Windows Internet Explorer 8, and then click Remove.

Note If Windows Internet Explorer 8 does not appear in the list of installed updates, try the alternative steps for Windows XP or for Windows Server 2003.
Follow the instructions to uninstall Internet Explorer 8.
When the uninstall program is finished, restart your computer.