I just said I don't like and don't use IE or Outlook. I know the p2p situation is because of security updates, one of them specifically targeting the tcpip.sys file and locking it. We had to remove that update so the evid4226patch could work for us. And I've written a old fashioned batch file to verify my settings plus I don't let my system update automatically.
The problem started with the update to SP2 but it was too late once we updated. I think a lot of us would love to uninstall IE but most of us have programs that depend on IE for some reason and the companies will not give us a work around so we live with the problem. It's like anything else, some updates are useful and some aren't.
The Microsoft OS no matter what version and IE only become a problem depending on what you use your computer for. The average joe may never have a problem. But as an expert, guru or power user, whatever label you want to use for some of us, we have to monitor the OS and it's updates much closer than most.