1. Ok, if you want to 2. not a chance, it talkst to Microsoft servers in redmond way to much. 3. some use it some don't, many who don't have the experience needed to avoid problems 4. you have got to be f**king kidding me, IE over Firefox for security? Firefox with noscript and adblock is far superior to IE when it comes to security.
Of course, as long as you're using a loader or IR4 it always works. You could use a driver also for loading slic, but I prefer a loader cause then everything that has something to do with loading the slic table is outside windows
Indeed, how could I forget that, biosmods are always good. As are stolen keys as long as they aren't blacklisted but the other methods are better