Protect Your Computer from the Internet Explorer Security Hole

Protect Your Computer from the Internet Explorer Security Hole

Maybe you have heard lots of Internet Explorer Security Hole which will lead to some malicious websites getting access to your files and even make your computer get infected. Here we will take a look at how to protect your computer from the Internet Explorer Security Hole.

Make Sure You Have Protected Mode Enabled

It is necessary for you to enable Protected Mode if you are running Windows 7 or Vista. Alought it can't entirely protect your computer from every threats, at least, it can filter some malicious web pages partly. Let's go into it!

Head into the Internet Options > Security tab, and click the checkbox.

Set ActiveX Controls to Always Prompt (or Disable Them)

You'll have disabled ActiveX Controls from automatically running if you just drag the slider in the screenshot above to High.

Note: Maybe the effect of this is that you'll feel annoy by prompting more often when visiting sites that use ActiveX Controls. Microsoft recommends that you add sites that you really trust to your Trusted Sites list. You'll probably have to uncheck that "Require https" checkbox at the bottom though.

In order to add a site to your Trusted Sites, just click the Trusted Sites icon shown in the image above, click the Sites button, type in the website URL and click the Add buttons.

Extra: Disable Unnecessary Plugins

Simple open up Tools > Manage Add-ons from your IE menu, and then change the drop-down to come to "All add-ons" which will show you a list of all the current add-ons that are enabled, so we can start disabling stuff.

At that, you'll have a list of add-ons. Then you can start disabling them by clicking on them, and then just click Disable.

Note(important): Adobe Reader seems to have one security hole after another. So if you don't really need Java you should get rid of it.

Note: Keep in mind to disable everything you don't need, and then only enable add-ons if you really need them. Of course, disabling add-ons is the quickest way to make IE run much faster.

Use Microsoft FixIt to Solve the Problem

Microsoft has come out the "Fix it" feature on their support site. You can simply launch a Microsoft-created utility that will solve your problem right there.

In this case, you can use Fix it to enable Network Protocol Lockdown.

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