Keep Your PC Safe

Internet Explorer comes with built-in security settings which, if used correctly, can help keep your PC safe if you visit a compromised or malicious website. If you open the Security options of Internet Explorer (click on ‘Tools’ choose ‘Options’ then the ‘Security’ tab), you will notice there are four ‘Zones’: Internet, Local Intranet, Trusted sites and Restricted sites. When you list a website in any of these zones the security settings for that zone will automatically be applied to that website whenever you visit it.

The Internet zone is the default zone containing all the websites you haven’t placed in any of the other three zones. The settings you set up in this zone will be applied to any website that you haven’t specifically listed in the Local intranet, Trusted sites or Restricted sites zones.

Since this is the default zone at least the medium-high security settings should be used. Any websites that are new to you will then automatically have this security applied. You should never reduce the security settings of the Internet zone to medium only. Once you know the website is secure you can add it to the list of Trusted sites and the settings in the Trusted zone will then apply to that website.

If you think the website cannot be fully trusted you can either do nothing, in which case the Internet zone security settings will always apply whenever you visit the site, or you can add it to the list of Restricted Sites where the highest possible security settings will apply helping to keep your PC safe.

Since Internet Explorer is, by far, the most common web browser in the world it is frequently, itself, the subject of malicious attack (see E is for Exploits) and its in-built security settings is no replacement for a good security suite such as Kaspersky Internet Suite.

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