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PC Daily Tips » IE7 Protected Mode Explained — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:32:38 +0000

[...] Mode for Internet Explorer 7. This functionality leverages the security model introduced with Vista’s UAC to add a layer of protection to Internet [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:13:47 +0000

This is a response to Roger. To claim that MS is being heavy handed to educated computer users is to be disingenious. …unless you claim that the user who picks dancing pigs over a secure system is an “educated” computer user. Otherwise you’re simply whining – you agree with MS that that these people need to be trained / educated.

The opposite of being heavy handed is to provide choices, correct? For the educated computer users, hasn’t Microsoft done this? They can do precisely what you seem to have done – turn off UAC and implement their own security practices. Is that really your idea of “poor service” that is “heavy handed” and “contemptious”?

By: Roger Palfree

Roger Palfree — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:19:21 +0000

I expect any good operating system upgrade to allow me to continue working as efficiently as before with the applications I am used to. I could not run XAMPP with UAC turned on. My life on the new laptop has been very much more efficient in other ways too since I turned it off.

Another thing: You quote microsoft ” Users have learned to dismiss dialogs, and so they will until we manage to teach them otherwise.” From Microsoft, this comes accross as from a schoolmaster with whip in hand, who does not like to let pupils think for themselves. The motives of Microsoft for foisting the obscurely novel menu system of MS Office 2007 on us has everything to do with marketing and contempt for the intelligence of the consumer than to do with good service and education.

The educated computer user, employing software and services of other companies and free software developers, and using intelligent practices with respect to visiting web pages or downloading software, does not need the big-brother/nanny oversight and high-handed interventions of Microsoft.

By: pogomcl

pogomcl — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:54:10 +0000

I am not techie s you are, but I am on the net constantly and writers are very aware fo the dangers that lurk there because books get hijacked and payments siphoned… and long exposure on internet opens possibilities. A friend told me I was neurotic when i reported the stats on my firewall for attacks. It’s just plain reality and has nothing to do with me personally and mostly with botnets or creditcards, but to protect myself, I downloaded the Scotty Watchdog from WinPatrol which has a similar program. Anytiem there is a download or change in registry, i get a prompt warning me of change. There is a similar monitoring system inside AVG professional now so tha if there is some change in registry, Grisoft sets off an alarm asking for confirmation. Although i can’t always read all the technical terms, i find that such programs are good becaue they protect me. And in my one Alarm, I have it set to warn me of any internal or external allowance to or from internet. Maybe I’m not smart, but I do care about my little idiot box adn my work…and I routinely go over to Shields up and test my computer.

I had 14 trracking cookies in 6months… so if someone tells me that my internet connection was slow because I installed spyware or some other rot, I generally bristle because the reality is just bad service from Czech telecoms.

basic preventative medicne protexts the computer. You don’t always have to be tech savvy.

now if only someone could tell me how to heal the Firefox that vanished and left it’s scripts and icons all over my desktop.