From: jj4public@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 13 May 2021 09:37:19 -0400, Mayayana wrote:   
   >   
   >   So can Explorer decide to go online of itself? I don't know   
   > of a case where that would happen, but I wouldn't rule it out.   
   > Personally I wouldn't allow either Explorer or IE to go online.   
   > I love the power of IE and I love the Active Desktop tie-in,   
   > but that rendered IE unsafe for online use.   
   >   
   >    There used to be debates about this in the VB group. People   
   > were using functions like URLDownloadToFile and believed that   
   > was not IE. But cookies will get saved in the Cookies folder!   
   > Then people claimed those are "Windows" cookies, not IE   
   > cookies. So even programmers didn't get the tie-in.   
      
   I forgot XP's Explorer still has Web View. THAT requires the embedded MSIE   
   browser component. However, by default, none of Explorer's Web View HTMLs   
   has any reference to remote resource. But third party Shell Extension can   
   use their own HTML which has references to remote resource; or a malware has   
   changed the setting to use HTMLs which use remote resource. So, this add   
   more possibilities to the root of the cause.   
      
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