Delete your Alexa spy in in your Microsoft explorer

Here is how you do that

[zeus]

Alexa is a program in your browser that watch your surfing behavour on the net.

OK begin so:

Start/Run/ type regedit / then look for HKLM or HKEY/sotware/Microsoft/internet explorer/extentions

there you delete c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a

Just a little tip

zeus

[chris_f]

Zeus,

There are alot of people who happily use Alexa. I don't but I know people (misguided as they are ;)) that do.

Chris

[Brett_Tabke]

Alexa is present, but alexa _not_ installed by default. You must download it. The key is leftover from custom versions of windows that do include Alexa.

[zeus]

I just want to let people know that something like that is in the explorer or left overs from other versions.

zeus

[wkitty42]

why remove when you can just alter the <windir>/WEB/RELATED.HTML file?

<script>
//Build the query
userURL=external.menuArguments.location.href;
RelatedServiceURL="http://www.google.com/search?as_rq=";
//Perform simple check for Intranet URLs
//this is where the http or https will be, as found by searching for :// but skip res:
protocolIndex=userURL.indexOf("://",4);
serverIndex=userURL.indexOf("/",protocolIndex + 3);
urlresult=userURL.substring(0,serverIndex);
//Check if Intranet URL - then open search bar
if (urlresult.indexOf(".",0) < 1) userURL="Intranet URL";
finalURL = RelatedServiceURL + encodeURIComponent(userURL);
external.menuArguments.open(finalURL, "_search");
</script>

i cannot take credit for this hack... Spybot-Search&Destroy is where i got it from...