Microsoft® Windows® Security: Essentials

The Essentials and Beyond

In this chapter, you learned about many of the built-in security features of Internet Explorer. IE includes a wealth of built-in security features, and you can also manipulate many of these settings based on specific user needs. Cookies are stored on the local machine and can be used to track a user’s behavior online, and you can use InPrivate Filtering and InPrivate Browsing to control what cookies are stored on a user’s system. You can also delete the browser’s history to remove cookies and other data collected from browser sessions. IE automatically detects one of four security zones (Internet, local intranet, trusted sites, and restricted sites) and sets default security based on the risks of the zone. IE also includes ...