The internet can be a scary place, filled with spam, contest scams, malicious viruses, and copycat websites. With so many factors against us, the average web user can certainly use some protection from their browsing. Fortunately, all modern browsers (like: Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer) have built-in security features.
In particular, Internet Explorer 8 has some new security functions built into its service that try to make up for the lack of security in its previous versions. Granted, it’s not a perfect system as I’ll explain in more detail later, but at least they’re making an effort. Right? Right.
Smart screen filter
The SmartScreen filter is one of the new safety features included in the 8th version of this popular browser. In fact, it is not complicated to use, it requires no effort on your part. Smart Screen checks the websites you visit against a constantly updated list of known phishing and malware websites reported by other users. Software that you download is also checked against the same list of malware sites.
For example, if you find an inappropriate site during your travels between sites, the following warning message will greet you. After that, it will be advised to go to another, safer location.
This was the first problem I had with the system, maybe just me, but I had to borrow the image above from the Official Microsoft site because no matter how hard I tried to find a particularly dangerous site, Internet Explorer never stopped me.
I suspect that this is because they rely on users to report unsafe data, rather than trolling the site themselves. Either way, it’s not very reassuring. But I suppose some protection is better than none.
Another aspect of SmartScreen is more sophisticated, simply highlighting the website’s domain name to better detect misleading addresses intended to trick you into entering personal data on duplicating websites, also known as phishing (ie: banking, email, etc.).
Like here, www.microsoft.com is darker than the rest of the address to attract attention.
Also, if you need to enable or disable the SmartScreen Filter, you can access it from the Settings menu in Internet Explorer 8. Take a look.
Browse and Filter InPrivate
I love features like this. InPrivate Browsing allows you to protect your personal information while browsing on public computers. Information such as browsing history, form data, cookies, temporary Internet files, and usernames and passwords will not be stored in any size while you are on the web. As a public computer user at my University, I find this feature quite valuable.
You can select InPrivate Browsing at the default New Tab window or by selecting it in the settings menu as shown below.
Websites sometimes provide advertising, content, images, and analytics from third parties they are not affiliated with. In these cases, InPrivate Filtering will intervene to protect you from those who want to harm you by monitoring your internet activities and stealing your information.
A piece of advice: InPrivate filtering is not enabled by default, and like InPrivate Browsing, it must be enabled on a per-session basis. This can be done again by accessing the Safety menu in the Settings drop-down menu.
And that is. Now you know how Internet Explorer 8 protects you from all the bad guys. ????
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