Lower Your Defenses When You Install IE 7

With the official release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 soon upon us, you may want to know that Microsoft's IEBlog is reminding everyone that they recommend that you temporarily turn off all you anti-virus and and anti-spyware applications before you install IE7. They say that the installation makes so many Registry changes that it may look suspicious to your AV software, which may interfere with the installation. (If you are paranoid, you could probably come up with some other reasons for this.) If you want to be an early adopter, read the blog post and comments .