Galen said:
Might be something to suit?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/pwrtwks.mspx
With that download you can set the security to the internet zone pretty
high and then, and only when, you decide you want to then you can easily
add it to the trusted zone or to the restricted zone at will. That and a
handy tool called Ads Filter...
http://www.adsfilter.com/en/
The tweaks added to the Tools menu can only be selected AFTER visiting a
site. Too late.
I don't want to add ALL sites where I want to reduce security to the Trusted
Sites zone. I don't trust all sites where I want reduced security, and the
Trusted Sites zone gives them way to much freedom.
I want to have the Restricted Sites security zone applied to all *new* sites
that I visited so they are throttled BEFORE downloading their pages and
content. I can then decide to move them into the Internet zone but ONLY for
that session, not for every session thereafter. Or I could add them to a
whitelist for the Internet zone (because I don't want them the full freedoms
of the Trusted Sites zone). Just because I may want to whitelist
*.microsoft.com under the Internet security zone doesn't mean that I want to
give that domain the full freedoms of the Trusted Sites zone.
Navigating to unknown sites under the Internet zone is too hazardous.
Putting any site into the Trusted Sites zone just to get their pages to
render correctly is also hazardous because you still probably don't want to
trust them that much. Moving a site into a different security zone AFTER
visiting there means you must take the action manually and it is performed
too late (but performing actions too late is typical of Microsoft, like with
their Antispyware product that monitors rather than intervenes). Putting on
a condom after having sex is stupid. So is always navigating condom-free
(or using a less-than-effective one) using the Internet zone. Putting every
site into the Trusted Sites zone just to get their pages to render correctly
but for which there is no trust (trust is something earned over time, not
immediately accepted) means you have corrupted your Trusted Sites zone with
unknown sites.
You don't get to whitelist sites in the Internet zone. You don't get to
specify that all *new* sites are rendered FIRST under the Restricted Sites
zone. The newness or first-time visit would be determined by checking your
History list in IE: if the site isn't listed in your history, it is a new
visit. Whitelisting would be checked first. Switching from Restricted
Sites to the Internet zone is NOT the same as proliferating the site list
under each zone with unknown sites.
You just want to switch the rendering security mode, not add them to a list.
The Power Tweaks powertoy (that I already have) doesn't do anything more
than add shortcuts in the menus that I would have to select manuall and that
I could have performed manually otherwise. The actions are manual and
performed AFTER the site is visited. Too late. The other linked product
doesn't up the security mechanism of IE, either, so that I am safe on my
first visit to a site and and choose afterward to reduce security either
temporarily for that particular visit or to whitelist the site to always use
the Internet zone. I am definitely not going to list every site that I want
rendered under the Internet zone to put it instead under the Trusted Sites
zone.
I haven't had IE7 to see if its security mechanism is any better than now.
If I cannot setup IE7 to always default to the Restricted Sites zone on a
first visit as determined from its History, to record in History if I
changed to a less secure zone, and to whitelist those sites that I frequent
and want rendered in the Internet zone (but NOT in the Trusted zone) then
IE7 hasn't improved on IE6's security model. I'm not sure any web browser
affords this level of security and configurability to let the user determine
how secure to be on a first-time visit to a site.
