Just what is Intelligent Explorer? For your safety, you really need to know

There seems to be a program out there that looks like a normal Internet Explorer upgrade, but if you look carefully, you will see that it’s a different program all together. If you are in the middle of something important you might just click the OK button without realizing that the program is really called Intelligent Explorer.

You will have more troubles than you would want to deal with in one life. It appears that Intelligent Explorer allows other software to be downloaded to your machine and this is where the problem occurs. What is even more remarkable is that by downloading Intelligent Explorer, their license grants them the right to install software add-ins on your computer at their will.

Take a look at what the software license for Intelligent Explore says (go to http://www.ieplugin.com/terms.html to read it all):

“You grant to us the right, exercisable by us until you uninstall the Software or this agreement is otherwise terminated, to provide to you the Service of downloading and causing to be displayed advertising material on your computer, through ‘pop-up’ or other display while you use your browser. You acknowledge and agree that installation of the Software may automatically modify toolbars and other settings of your browser. By installing the Software you agree to such modifications.”

If you are wondering how a company can go ahead and do something like this, the company IBC Inc. is incorporated in Belize. That should explain how a company would get away with this behavior.

Intelligent Explorer is a plug-in, which can create a new home page, as well as start up and endless loop of pop-ups. You can remove the view bar, but then starting up Internet Explorer will cause it to reappear.

What can you do to fix this if you fall victim to it? Buy a copy of a program called XoftSpy and follow the steps to remove the Intelligent Explorer. There are also other programs that will also do the job like spybot, NoAdware, Spyware Eliminator, Pal Spyware Remover, and Spyware C.O.P.

I do have to say that I’ve not had to purchase any of these programs since I’m very careful with what is downloaded into my computers and laptops.