How To Disable The SmartScreen Filter In Internet Explorer
The so called SmartScreen Filter has been added to Internet Explorer 8 by Microsoft
. The filter has been designed to warn the user in case unsafe websites are accessed in the web browser. Unsafe websites can for instance be phishing websites or sites that distribute malware. The SmartScreen filter will first check the visited website against a list of “high traffic website addresses†stored on the computer system that are believed to be legitimate by Microsoft.
Any address that is not in that local list will be send to a Microsoft server where it will be compared against a database that contains unsafe and suspicious websites. Standard computer information and the SmartScreen Filter version number will also be transmitted in the process.
The so called SmartScreen Filter has been added to Internet Explorer 8 by Microsoft
. The filter has been designed to warn the user in case unsafe websites are accessed in the web browser. Unsafe websites can for instance be phishing websites or sites that distribute malware. The SmartScreen filter will first check the visited website against a list of “high traffic website addresses†stored on the computer system that are believed to be legitimate by Microsoft.
Any address that is not in that local list will be send to a Microsoft server where it will be compared against a database that contains unsafe and suspicious websites. Standard computer information and the SmartScreen Filter version number will also be transmitted in the process.
