I had a user leave me this message:
I have lost my Internet!
When I checked this XP system out, sure enough, Internet Explorer 7 was gone from the Start Menu and the Program Files\Internet Explorer directory.
After poking around it appears that Sunbelt’s Vipre beta had quarantined iexplore.exe.
This occurred after a “Microsoft Patch Tuesday” so I’m guessing Vipre may have detected a change in iexplore.exe and notified the user who decided to quarantine the new file.
Moral of the story: You can lose the Internet and if you do, check your AV/AS quarantine.
