Re: hardening / restricting IE to only the essentials - advice requested

From: CJM (joem83_at_msn.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:52:12 -0500

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 ?