Blocking unsafe sites
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IE8's phishing filter gets a new name, SmartScreen Filter, and a blood-red border that makes it difficult to ignore a potentially dangerous site. The protection extends to downloaded files as well; any download attempt from a site flagged as unsafe will be blocked in equally emphatic style.
For a more detailed discussion of this and other features in Internet Explorer Beta 2, see Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover.
IE8's phishing filter gets a new name, SmartScreen Filter, and a blood-red border that makes it difficult to ignore a potentially dangerous site. The protection extends to downloaded files as well; any download attempt from a site flagged as unsafe will be blocked in equally emphatic style.
For a more detailed discussion of this and other features in Internet Explorer Beta 2, see Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover.
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- There's always ieSpell
- I don't know if it is related to the IEPro mentioned in one of the other notes, but there is a little program called ieSpell which fi I remember right is free. It can be used for everything not relate... (Read the rest)
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