Why is everyone going to realize that "bundling" in not the crux of the matter.
It is COMMINGLING THE CODE that is the problem.

MS has been doing that all along.
Do you need networking? No fine. Yes which one, Novell, MS, etc.

Do you need a brower? No, fine. Yes which one, MS, Firefox, Opera, [and 100 others]

This should be part of the install or desktop icons.

All of MS website should be W3 standards compliant and not rely on Exploder. There is a monopoly violation, since I use Firefox.

REMOVE ALL code that is not essential to devices and presentation and let the customer decide what to have.

So where is the DoJ.
The 800lb gorilla and the wild elephant are tearing up the china shop.

Seriously, this is using your ILLEGAL Monopoly to control other markets and that is ILLEGAL.

Will just to wait and see of our new set of congress-critters are neutered or have some brass one.

Remember when MS was blowing their horn about getting a "level 4" [some such] from the DoD for NT handling everything the threw at it.

Then when MS was packing up to go home, they held up the network cable and said "oh, how silly of us, never mind".

This does not surprise me since governments are MS #2 customer, right behind themselves.
Do the math, all those VAR's, anti-? companies, etc, yep, "our customers wanted this"-----right.

Could not have said it better myself.

And I might add:

If your not part of the solution, then there are plenty of big bucks to be made prolonging the problem.

And as my doctor once said:
A patient cured, is a customer lost.

Would you basement dwellers get a real job so you have enough money to Pay Attention.

It is not about BUNDLING - placing IE icon on the desktop. Never has been.

It is about CO-MINGLING the code such that only IE is the "brower".
Removing the icon is not removing the code.

If you want a lawyers point of view got read http://www.lamlaw.com/

He explains it very pointedly.

Not sure if you are young or just need to get of SD and pay attention.

The USoA was over taken years ago.
Welcome to the United Corporations and Churches of America.
Where the *real product* is the Stock and
the *true customer* is the Stock Holder.

Corporations have a legal obligation to increase share holder value.

If you want of the money-go-round then have a look at lists.thedatalist.com, everything is "what is says it is". If it says installing Google ToolBar that is fine - sneaking it is not.
Some is free, some is share, some is pay.
It up to you.

Mepis will cure that www.mepis.org

Open My Computer
Click the Show Folders icon on the tool bar
Navigate to the Windows [or WinNT] folder.
there is a little icon on the right of the tool bar that will select "Show Details"
Click on the "Date" column name until the top is the newest files.

Look for strange named DLL/EXE/INI.
if they are after you noticed the pc got sick.
Right Click the file and choose rename the put a _ at the start [if the machine works fine there easy to find and delete after a reboot]

But the real answer is Mepis.

The last machine I clean needed 49 updates do to the malware shutting it down.

At no point did I get "Would you like to install MS Reoval Tool [Y/N]?"

All that was there was "Installing KBxxxxxxx".
Like that really helps
Stupid Microsoft.!>!>!

You got #2 right on.
The first thing I do is as when it got sick, then look for anything in that time frame.
Usually not long before that may be dates from Windows update.
Just cleaned one with many INI files.
They were binary not text.
Put a _ in front of the name to flag them.

But if you got one in WinLogOn...may well be hosed.
That is the most difficult to get out.