So you guys who work for Big Brother, are you blocked if you try to download FF, Chrome or Safari? If you can download them then you could still use IE for all work related websites.
Unfortunately, being as I work for a big financial - allowing us to install programs would be too big a security risk. I managed to work around their security once, but they closed that loophole and even trying to install third party applications results in pointed questions.
To date - they haven't figured out that I can ftp using the cmd.exe. However - I'm going to lose that ability soon since they are migrating us onto an even more restrictive setup of XP on which I don't even have read access for the local hard drive or desktop files!