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Subscribe to commentsmuhammad shozaibDec 8th 2010 4:55PM
nice idea !!!!!!!
Veritas987Dec 8th 2010 6:24PM
Just as with the DO NO CALL list, which is blantantly ignored by telemarketers every day, the so called IE9 Tracking Protection won't work any better. If it's a Microsoft product my guess is that the Tracking Protection software will have so many coding errors that it will take them 10 years to correct it with updates and "hotfixes'. My suggestion is to buy your own protection such as Trend Micro, Kapersky, Zone Alarm, etc. Unlike Microsoft, their ONLY business is to create computer protection software.