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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Limiting Internet Explorer to Windows Update

The Tlog:

As everyone should know, Internet Explorer is a very insecure browser, and daily use can quickly turn a Microsoft Windows PC into a spyware-ridden, spam-sending slow, unstable abomination.

I don’t use IE at home, because Mozilla Firefox is infinitely better and more secure, but I’ve found that many people, even those otherwise educated and intelligent, think of “the Internet” as “the blue E”, and, when wanting to open a site, open IE without thinking.

So I had to do something about it.

So I want to be able to recommend this approach, but it requires a Unix/Linux machine as a gateway, and normal people can't do that. How about something like this that works with an off-the-shelf Linksys router?

One bit of feedback reads: "This can be done much simpler. You can set the local proxy on IE to 127.0.0.1 running on any port. Then, in the advanced, you can put addresses in the allow box. It's how I have mine set up."

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