hardening / restricting IE to only the essentials - advice..

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

this is for a PC running XP SP2
with Internet connection, but not on a LAN...

having switched to Firefox for general web use
I'd like to restrict IE to a limited number of sites -
at the moment just the "Windows Update" and "Office Update"
sites - which need to play with Active-X controls

first thought is -
in the IE Security settings - set all of the zones to "High"

add those sites to which I want to allow access,
into the "Trusted Sites" zone - set that to to "High"
then allow prompted Active-X in that zone

hmmm
that seems too easy :|

am I forgetting something ?

is there a decent tutorial on the subject ?

 

[CJM]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

Open Internet Options, goto content, under content advisor click enable,
then click approved sites, and add the sites you would like.

Behold the power Of IE, the reason I will never leave IE.

"no-spam" <no-spam@false-address.net> wrote in message
news:cvt406$5d1$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> this is for a PC running XP SP2
> with Internet connection, but not on a LAN...
>
> having switched to Firefox for general web use
> I'd like to restrict IE to a limited number of sites -
> at the moment just the "Windows Update" and "Office Update"
> sites - which need to play with Active-X controls
>
> first thought is -
> in the IE Security settings - set all of the zones to "High"
>
> add those sites to which I want to allow access,
> into the "Trusted Sites" zone - set that to to "High"
> then allow prompted Active-X in that zone
>
> hmmm
> that seems too easy :|
>
> am I forgetting something ?
>
> is there a decent tutorial on the subject ?