If you use Internet Explorer, you should check some settings and adjust them as necessary to ensure a higher level of security when surfing the web or downloading files.
For convenience, some security menu items are summarized in the menu bar above
However, the Security menu does not contain all the important settings
With "Enable Tracking Protection" and "Do Not Track" requests, Internet Explorer offers a dual solution against overly much monitoring that works well. Also useful is ActiveX filtering ActiveX is a website optimization technology that is used only in Internet Explorer, and which unfortunately provides some attack surfaces. Turn on ActiveX filtering, so you can decide how each ActiveX element is executed. This allows you to set trustworthy sites and, if necessary, block unknown content.
In Internet Explorer, click on "Tools" and "Internet Options". On the "Security" tab, check "Security" for "Internet", at least "Medium" High ", and under" Privacy "the settings should be set to" Medium ", too.
Cookies are text files that create websites on the user's computer to store information for a certain time. If a cookie is no longer valid, it is automatically deleted. Users can also remove their own cookies, but can also delete them via Internet Explorer, by clicking on "Delete Security / Browser History."
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