LWN login problems with Internet Explorer

In case that needs explaining: many corporate environments have an Approved List of software that may be put on their PCs. Downloading and running programs that aren't on that list can be a serious corporate offense.

Given what some of my users have downloaded, I can see their point, with all the spyware, trojan horses, potential for copyright violations, restrictive licenses, stuff that gets around firewall limitations, and other stuff that's out there.

With the wonderfully misplaced inventiveness of some users, an Approved List and severe penalties for breaking it is a relatively easy way of keeping the problem from becoming too severe.

Unfortunately, you then get Corporate Structure involved, and at best one tends to need a "valid business reason" and your boss's signature to request that a program goes onto the Approved List. If corporate structure is too baroque, it must be tempting just to use Internet Explorer. And if the company gets infected -- well, the company asked for it.