Re: Trusted Site in Internet Options

From: rusga (reply2newsgroup_at_nntp)
Date: 10/03/04 

Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 09:59:25 +0100

Hi,

5. There are 5 zones, but IE only shows 4.
The fifth zone is "My Computer" where one should also be very strict
regarding policies since offline browsing takes place in this context.

Regards,
rusga

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 01:58:52 GMT, Steven L Umbach
<n9rou@n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net> wrote:

> By default there are four web content zones. Unless a website is added to
> one of the Web Content Zones other than the internet zone, then the
> security
> settings in the internet zone apply to that zone. The security setting
> for
> my internet zone is medium, the trusted zone is low, and the restricted
> sites is high. The advantage of adding a site to the trusted zone is
> that it
> will have looser security settings applied to it for more convenient
> website
> browsing. However the lower security settings can result in a computer
> getting parasites, home page hijacking, or worse. That is why only
> absolutely trusted websites should be the only ones added to the trusted
> zone. For instance I have Microsoft, Amazon, Vanguard brokerage, and some
> others to my trusted zone. I believe these are companies who operate high
> quality businesses with quality websites that have no interest in
> compromising my computer. However what I do is configure my internet
> zone
> to high security and set my trusted zone to medium which still allows me
> to
> browse my trusted websites without any problem and protect me better for
> general internet browsing in case I end up at a website that tries to
> install junk on my computer. --- Steve
>
>
> "Gal" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:15d701c4a965$588f3db0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hello
>>
>> Do someone knows thw advanteges of "Trusted Site" in the
>> internet options under tools
>>
>>
>> thank you in advance
>>
>> Gal
>
>

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