7th September 2001
Security is something we all think about when we leave the house for an extended period of time. "Did I remember to lock the doors?" Your Internet experience, in many respects, is no different than real life. If you don't batten down the hatches, you could run into problems at some point in the future. Wanna make sure your parents (or children) aren't downloading anything you didn't want them to download? Double-click the Internet Options icon in the Control Panel, flip to the Security tab, press the Custom Level button, scroll down to the Downloads section, and select the "Disable" radio option. Bet you didn't know that was there, eh? And here's another annoyance you can turn off. Some Web sites enjoy automatically refreshing the current page (so they'll get another banner impression out of you). A little further down the list, you'll find the "Allow META REFRESH" option. Disable that puppy (if you wish). And if you still don't feel like you've done enough, why not disable the dragging & dropping and copying & pasting of data, too? Yep, the option is sitting right there. WARNING: don't go changing to try to please me. You never let me down before. Don't imagine you're too familiar... with tweaking stuff. You can always change things back to the way they were before. Though, you know... I'll take you just the way you are.