SmartScreen filter (an improved version of Phishing filter), added in Internet Explorer 8, is designed to help protect you from fraudulent websites trying to steal your personal information. The SmartScreen Filter offers the following enhancements1 over the Phishing filter:
- Improved user interface
- Faster performance
- New heuristics and enhanced telemetry
- Anti-malware support for blocking unsafe downloads
- Improved group policy support
The Windows Team Blog made a nice post to explain the strategies and methods adopted by the SmartScreen Filter technology to protect users from phishing and malware attacks. Read Getting a reputation: How SmartScreen looks at URLs at The Windows Blog. (more…)
The Start Navigation sound can be sometimes annoying. We understand that the clicking sound is generated when you click a hyperlink in Internet Explorer. That’s obvious! Have you wondered why the clicking sound is generated even though you don’t click on a link? It could be possible that the page you’re viewing is set to refresh automatically after some time. But that’s not the only action that triggers the Start Navigation sound event. 
Do you find it difficult to filter out images, Ads and other unwanted content from web pages (for printing)? You no longer have to manually edit Web pages to remove unwanted content before printing. Have a look at Printee for Internet Explorer. Printee is a Web Printing tool for Internet Explorer which lets you pick, edit and print web page only what you want. Using Printee you can remove images and backgrounds, selectively delete page elements such as advertising, navigation menus and other items, and also change the font, width and page layout style.
