. . . This was all a sick joke?
Well, here's a little piece of advice from a layman: it's only funny when it isn't you.
Put yourselves in my shoes: I didn't know what it was for, when I clicked the link I see that the IE notice bar drops down and says that my intraweb security settings' default is now that they are off and then it navigates to a page of 'internet explorer can't go there', and then when I ask what's going on everyone goes all alarmist on me.
Because of this sick joke, I ended up going to Microsoft for customer support, and am now running the most thorough virus scan of my LIFE.
I was worried that some of my life's work (I intend to go into game design, I might point out) was going to be lost forever because I might end up having to wipe my hard drive.
I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO LOSE EVERYTHING I HAD WORKED ON FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS.
You all may find this hilarious, but this little victim happens to be completely outraged at the proceedings -- heck, from what I'm reading here the only one who seemed to be helpful was actually stringing me along like the rest.
The only good thing coming out of this is that I'm tightening my internet security, but that's not enough to make me want to stay in this depraved den.