security settings toggle for IE5?

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Achim Nolcken Lohse

I keep most of the vulnerable functions of IE browser (using V5.01),
such as cookies, active scripting, etc. disabled by default,
especially since I've been unable to use the Windows upgrade function
or to order the upgrade disk.

Some of my essential net sites, like my bank, demand active scripting,
however, and it's a royal pain to have to navigate the
Tools/options/security drop down menu every time to change my
settings, also to have to set scripting to prompt so I don't forget to
change it back when it's no longer required.

Is there a tool that will allow me to set a number of alternative
security settings for IE5 under Win98SE and then simply toggle them,
preferably with a taskbar icon that tells me which configuration is
active?
 
Achim said:
Some of my essential net sites, like my bank, demand active scripting,
however, and it's a royal pain to have to navigate the
Tools/options/security drop down menu every time to change my
settings, also to have to set scripting to prompt so I don't forget to
change it back when it's no longer required.

Is there a tool that will allow me to set a number of alternative
security settings for IE5 under Win98SE and then simply toggle them,
preferably with a taskbar icon that tells me which configuration is
active?
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Can you not simply set your 'essential sites' to 'trusted' in your
security settings?
 
Option 1) Add your banks site to the trusted sites list and allow the
necessary options for the trusted sites

Option 2) Set the options you want, export the registry keys, and use
a reg file to change a group of settings

Option 3) Try Mozilla and if the bank site doesn't work, complain to
the bank

I hope one of these works for you,

Joe P
 
Can you not simply set your 'essential sites' to 'trusted' in your
security settings?
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Well, I'd like to trust them as little as possible. For instance, I
like to know how many cookies they're setting, and for how long.

I'm also not up on what setting them up as "trusted" exposes me to.
 
Option 1) Add your banks site to the trusted sites list and allow the
necessary options for the trusted sites

Option 2) Set the options you want, export the registry keys, and use
a reg file to change a group of settings

Option 3) Try Mozilla and if the bank site doesn't work, complain to
the bank

I hope one of these works for you,

Joe P
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Thanks,

Not sure if it corresponds to option #1, but am going to try the
pwrtwks program suggested by Alexander Knorr first. Option two is
beyond my technical knowhow, and complaining to the bank (and the
federal government) is a waste of time in my experience.
 
Thanks,

Not sure if it corresponds to option #1, but am going to try the
pwrtwks program suggested by Alexander Knorr first. Option two is
beyond my technical knowhow, and complaining to the bank (and the
federal government) is a waste of time in my experience.
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In Norway complaining to the banks has helped a lot.
The banks don't want their systems to get a reputation for being difficult
to use.
I think it's a duty for everybody to participate in reducing the power of
the MS monopoly; not to punish MS, but to make sure they feel the heat of
competition and behave accordingly.
 
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In Norway complaining to the banks has helped a lot.
The banks don't want their systems to get a reputation for being difficult
to use.
I think it's a duty for everybody to participate in reducing the power of
the MS monopoly; not to punish MS, but to make sure they feel the heat of
competition and behave accordingly.
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Well said!
 
In Norway complaining to the banks has helped a lot.
The banks don't want their systems to get a reputation for being difficult
to use.
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In Canada it's quite different. The big banks (and mine is the biggest
and most profitable) treat their rank-and-file customers with the
utmost contempt.

I've complained often, long, and repeatedly to the bank, to its
so-called Ombudsman, and to the government's so-called regulators
about a number of serious security issues and outrageous unloading of
responisibilities, all without the slightest effect.

Most recently I complained about a number of issues with RBC Bank's
revised Online Banking Agreement, which basically forces users to
relieve the bank of any responsibility for carrying out online
instructions, carrying out any modifications of those instructions,
paying memorized payments on time, etc., etc.. The bank's Customer
Service Manager categorically refused to address a single one of my
specific written criticisms of this "agreement" in writing, saying
that they could only by addressed in a telephone conversation!

The bank's Ombudsman and the federal government's regulator were sent
copies of the e-mail in which this refusal was spelled out, and
neither seems to have any problem with it.

I think it's a duty for everybody to participate in reducing the power of
the MS monopoly; not to punish MS, but to make sure they feel the heat of
competition and behave accordingly.
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Monopoly is the name of the game. Microsoft is only one of many big
players itching to get a permanent lock on our wallets.
 
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