Thursday, September 30, 2010

How to Enable or Disable SmartScreen Filter in Internet Explorer 9

September 20th, 2010. Filed under:IE. Tags: Security, smartscreen
By this time most of us must have downloaded the latest beta release of Internet Explorer 9 which was made public by Microsoft last week. So if you are using Internet Explorer and you want a better online experience with enhanced security while browsing the web pages then you might want to enable a filter called Microsoft SmartScreen.

For those who don’t know what is smartscreen, it is a feature in Internet Explorer that helps detect phishing websites, and can also help protect you from installing malicious software or malware. So whenever you encounter a suspicious site a warning will be displayed on the browser window to notify the user about the sites nature and whether user trusts the site owner/publisher to continue further on the URL provided.

Here are few simple steps to Enable the Smart Screen Filter:

Open Internet ExplorerGo to  Tools>Internet Options

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