Earlier this month, yet another security hole in Internet Explorer has been uncovered regarding the duration Explorer users running Windows XP or Windows Vista in protected mode and turned off in your browser. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer has a favorite pastime of many hackers in recent years, often in a position to a personal computer with viruses and spyware, encouraging easily infect a person visits a website bad. Familiar, but the intellectual property of sophisticated cyber attackers Google earlier this year by exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.Microsoft programs are frequent targets because of their wide use – the vast majority of PCs in the world are running a version of Microsoft Office, So, the impact of massive piracy can have a set of code. Once the user visits a Web site or open traps caught an infected e-mails, the amount of code loaded on your computer and steal into Microsoft Office, control and information. Fortunately, there to take some simple steps schützen.Halten against these attacks in protected mode is enabled in your browser, Internet Explorer 7 is running by default, which should pose no problem unless you have manually disabled. Protected mode is specially designed to protect your system against damage by limiting the places, the files can be saved or modified without the permission of the user. To ensure that you have enabled, protected mode: Open Internet Explorer 7 in the control bar, select the Tools tab. In the dropdown, choose “Internet Options”. Select the Security tab. Select “Enable Protected Mode” and check the checkbox is selected. For other versions of Windows: If you have Internet Explorer on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 is a restricted mode known as Enhanced Security Configuration, which is automatically sets the security level to “high” surf the Internet.Installieren all Microsoft updates. visit www. Microsoft. com / security and click “Get Updates [months] security.” A window appears telling you if you have any updates available, or if you have installed one of the reasons for new downloads and installations. This is where patches are found to fix “holes” in Internet Explorer. You can also use the Start menu to check for updates in the menu, select “All Programs” then “Windows Update”. The Microsoft Security Web site has a link to the free antivirus and antispyware software that is downloaded when you give your computer additional protection against Hacker.Add-ons can be the source of malicious activity on your PC. Disable all add-ons that seem suspicious. To do this: Open the browser. In the command bar, select the Tools tab. In the dropdown, select “Manage Add-ons.” Select “Enable or Disable Add-ons” to klicken.Suchen suspicious add-ons. If you think that this point of view, open your favorite search engine and investigate. Disable add-ons that you find security risks.