Quote Originally Posted by nickstanovic
If they didn't have Firefox in this situation, Windows Explorer could also be used to browse and download that browser. When our customers get IE completely hosed, we instruct them to use WE as the emergency backup; WE works the same but ignores all the hijacking/spyware attached to IE.

EDIT: If the hijacking changed the DNS then WE will not make a difference so it's not fool-proof but then again other browsers will also be affected - rambling sorry. Nick =0)
Interesting and useful to know - thanks!