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If I relied on Windows, and the exception box for IE is not checked then the alert would not appear. If the exception box is checked then the alert would appear and the fix in Spybot would remove the check.
Not quite. If IE is in the list, then the alert will appear whether the box is ticked or not (I can't see why, but that does seem to be the case). The only way to stop the alert is to either remove IE from the list completely yourself, or to let Spybot do it for you. But in your case this is merely an academic point. It simply doesn't matter.