> Now this browser has been opened. I can close it before the page loads and before I have read anything I really don't care about. ... and if you're worried a

> Now this browser has been opened. I can close it before the page loads and before I have read anything I really don't care about. ... and if you're worried about not being fast enough, you could also add (to your firewall) an outbound "block everything" rule for the .exe. Alternatively, configure it to always use a specific proxy server which doesn't exist.