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by rajsdoshi

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This is NOT a question, but just sharing what I found and what was new for me.

I was always confused by the choices of Security Policy and Zone Settings offered here:

[b] IE/InternetOptions/Security/CustomLevel/SecuritySettings-InternetZone [/b]

The words and phrases seemed scary to me, and I was never sure of the implications of the Choices presented there.

But now I found the following on MS website. It helped me:

[b] http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/using/howto/security/setup.mspx [/b]

[i] If this is outdated or old news, can someone post updated links please ? [/i]

Thanks to [b] Old Mycroft, OH Smeg and Jacky Howe [/b] for lots of help and hand-holding.

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by rob miners

their Knowledgebase Articles if there are major changes. The default Security settings have been sufficient for my use of IE. I do like to get a prompt as to whether or not I allow a cookie from a site though. I use IE because it was specifically built for the Operating System and I haven't had too many problems with it since it came out all those years ago. I also use the inbuilt Firewalls that are provided by the Operating System.

I have seen so many PC's that have been infected that have Firewall and big name Antivirus installed that I consider it next to useless. If you insist on visiting wares sites and using P2P you are better off getting software that will re-image the PC on the fly.

I do use Antivirus software that is updated every day. It may stop some of it but I know that it won't stop it all.

Have a good read of the information that you found as it is a good way to get an understanding of how things will work.

by older mycroft

Dunno why, it just always seems to drag whenever I use it, which I still have to do for M$-specific installs.

Occasionally I can get away with downloading some stuff from the M$ site using FF3 (there's also an Add-On for FF3 that places the IE7 engine inside a FF3 tabbed window).

I'm a bit surprised that you find the M$ firewall a functional item, but that's obviously a personal choice and I won't knock it. ;)

by rob miners

at all but I can stop certain programs from accessing the net. Every time that I have played with Firewalls I lose access to something or it will block something that is required. I really couldn't be botherd setting one up as I said before in the earlier post I have seen so many infected Firwewalled PC's that I think that it is a waste of time.

Mind you Windows 7 seems to include a bit more than XP or Vista.

Edit to add:

I did try FF3 recently and for my connection it was about the same as IE at loading pages and searching. I didn't notice any difference to be honest.

by older mycroft

IE6 or IE7 allows me to watch a progress bar when I head for a web page - any web page.

FF2 or FF3 has a little area in the lower left of the browser window for a progress bar, but I never see the progress bar until the PC has been online for greater than 36 hours. When I see the progress bar I know it's time to power down and cycle the Netgear router.

When I next power up with FF the progress bar is gone again. That is the speed difference.

Maybe it's down to my ISP or whatever. During the night I hit 10MB broadband.

by thumbsup2

.. on the West Coast of USA. Of course, it depends on the pages visited. ;)

Testing here at TR though and some others which I frequent, I get about the same load time on both browsers and neither one has anything in particular, in the way of add-ins, that I can't live without.

So, it really doesn't matter to me which one I use on a regular basis. I use both to test what a web page is going to look like. I have IE set to one home page and FF set to another. I just start which ever one I want to go to at the moment.

by rob miners

a bit of difference when I was using PCLinuxOS with FF2. It seems a bit quicker than IE or FF3. :D

by thumbsup2

You'll see the progress bar better that way! :D

Yeah! Yeah! I hear all sorts of people saying FF is SO much faster. To each his own, I guess. Because, from where I sit, there's not much difference. It must be my system (or yours), because I don't need to reboot for weeks on end! :D ;)

by rob miners

your speed. :D

And to jog my memory I booted up LinuxOS and it is faster but not by much. I can't see a status bar bottom left but it does tell you what is happening. ;)

Edit to add:

I'm still getting 404's going to My WorkSpace in FF2.

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