Re: Non Disclosure Agreement Requires Removal of IE

The "Explorer" shell of the Windows OS pretty much requires IE to be in place. You will not be removing it when using Windows or at least not the Explorer shell. If you change your shell then you won't have to use IE but then you aren't really running what people generally consider a Windows machine either.

As a general rule, if someone says you can't run IE, they mean you can't use a Windows PC as the number of people that would know how to jump to alternate shell is low and the number of people who would do it long term is even lower.

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Bill T. wrote:
I have before me a Non Disclosure Agreement from an important client that requires me to remove every version of Internet Explorer and other browswers now installed on my computer, and the use a speciified third party browser instead. This is in preparation to exchaning sensitive materials via the web. I was informed via telephone that even when IE's "History" was set to "0 Days," histories were still retained for 1 day, allowing sensitive materials to be viewed by third parties in the event of a theft, loss, or security breach.

Can anybody offer me a way to refute this? In fact, the mandatory 1 day retention seems to be an actual fact, and a glaring security risk, especially for those of us who travel. And after all, "0" means exactly that, and not "1." I think IE users are smart enough to put "1" when that's what they want. Yes I am aware of passwords and other security techniques, but my client clearly does not regard such as adequate protection and insists on the removal of IE et al.


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