Best way to secure IE8 32-bit?

[justHenson]

Fresh install of Windows 7, and I'd love to keep it running clean.

Are there any guides out there to locking down IE8? Maybe a page that
discusses what each one of the settings under the Security dialog actually
means?

What do you guys do? I love IE, but I know the 32-bit version isn't he
safest of all the browsers out there.

 

[Leonard Grey]

Here's a pretty good place to start:

"4 steps to protect your computer"
http://www.microsoft.com/nz/protect/computer/default.mspx
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Leonard Grey
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justHenson wrote:
> Fresh install of Windows 7, and I'd love to keep it running clean.
>
> Are there any guides out there to locking down IE8? Maybe a page that
> discusses what each one of the settings under the Security dialog actually
> means?
>
> What do you guys do? I love IE, but I know the 32-bit version isn't he
> safest of all the browsers out there.

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

=?Utf-8?B?anVzdEhlbnNvbg==?= <justHenson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news:B74284E9-1068-
4CAE-BC7C-BFECEF69F9D0@microsoft.com:

> Fresh install of Windows 7, and I'd love to keep it running clean.
>
> Are there any guides out there to locking down IE8? Maybe a page that
> discusses what each one of the settings under the Security dialog actually
> means?
>
> What do you guys do? I love IE, but I know the 32-bit version isn't he
> safest of all the browsers out there.

Keep all the browser add-ons updated (as well as your OS):

Flash
Shockwave
QuickTime
Java
Adobe Reader

Here is more reading:

http://lifehacker.com/5401453/stop-...ity-microsofts-security-tools-are-good-enough