I have been getting this a lot at work. They have ended support of XP what should I do? Well here at work we are doing...nothing. Yep that is right not to worried here and I will explain why. It was estimated that 20% of current running pcs still run XP and here at my job I would say that we run about 35% over all campuses. Now the following are options and may not be truth but here is what I think. XP has been one of the most reliable operation systems in some time from Microsoft. And They don't even want to mention Vista so lots of people stuck with XP. I think there is some fear mongering going on because if you notice they have been very public on social media letting people know that they are ending support and I think that is to help sales of MS 8 which hasn't done as well as they had hoped according to investor reports.
Now as to why you shouldn't worry. It is like a lot of things with computers if you use common sense and don't go to places you shouldn't anyway you will be fine. If you are going to risky websites and I am sure we know what i mean by that XXX, or illegal software websites then you are taking that risk weather you have new security updates or not. A great example was the latest Internet Explorer bug. Yes it was bad and yes you could get your computer seriously messed up because of it BUT you still had to go to fake website that some one would have to set up and lure you too. Point is most holes and back doors are exploited when you take a risk any way.
Really with XP if you still wish to use it just remember to be safe. Don't go to those bad websites, keep your antivirus up to date, and run scans every now and then(reference my maintenance post 1, 2, 3) and you will be fine. I hope this helps you and thanks for reading. Please feel free to post if you fell differently.
Showing posts with label security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label security. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Annoying Internet Explorer Trusted Site Pop Up and how to REMOVE!
Hello again. I have been having a deal of this at work and figured that there must be people out there also having this problem. The issue is that in Internet Explorer a box pops up and ask if this website is ok to allow access. This might also be confusing with those that know a little bit about the internet options because it says that it is a trusted site but you of course don't have any trusted sites set up. Now you may want this site to never be shown or always be shown I will show you how to do both while taking down the pop up that seems to come up all the time.
First off you will need to open internet explorer and click ok on any pop ups that come up once the pop ups stop then we can begin. The directions are pretty much the same on all version of IE 8 and above with a few Graphic differences.
1. We want to find a Gear looking Icon near the top and click on it once. After that menu is up click on "internet options" (if it is grayed out and you can't click on it ie just hasn't loaded up yet click the gear icon again and wait a few seconds then click it again to bring it up it should have loaded by then allowing you to click on the "internet Options" object).
2. A box will open and their will be tab looking things on the top that have titles. Click on the one that says security once.
3.Normally you will see 4 colored icons in a white box bellow the tabs. We want to click on the one that says "Trusted Sites"
4. There will be a button closer to the bottom the box now that says custom level. IMPORTANT for this to look right you must have "trusted sites" selected.
5. Another Box will come up with a bunch of little dots that you can change settings but we are only looking for one. About 3/4 the way down there will be one that says "Websites in less privileged web content zone can navagiate into this zone" Prompt should be selected by default, this is why the pop up is coming up. If you want these sites to come up click the dot by "enable" if not click the one for "disable".
6. Once you have made your choice click OK at the bottom of that box to save and exit. Then click "OK" on the next box to save and exit and return to Internet Explorer.
From now on you won't have that pop up come up any more. Thank you very much for reading this and I hope dearly that this has helped you out.
First off you will need to open internet explorer and click ok on any pop ups that come up once the pop ups stop then we can begin. The directions are pretty much the same on all version of IE 8 and above with a few Graphic differences.
1. We want to find a Gear looking Icon near the top and click on it once. After that menu is up click on "internet options" (if it is grayed out and you can't click on it ie just hasn't loaded up yet click the gear icon again and wait a few seconds then click it again to bring it up it should have loaded by then allowing you to click on the "internet Options" object).
2. A box will open and their will be tab looking things on the top that have titles. Click on the one that says security once.
3.Normally you will see 4 colored icons in a white box bellow the tabs. We want to click on the one that says "Trusted Sites"
4. There will be a button closer to the bottom the box now that says custom level. IMPORTANT for this to look right you must have "trusted sites" selected.
5. Another Box will come up with a bunch of little dots that you can change settings but we are only looking for one. About 3/4 the way down there will be one that says "Websites in less privileged web content zone can navagiate into this zone" Prompt should be selected by default, this is why the pop up is coming up. If you want these sites to come up click the dot by "enable" if not click the one for "disable".
6. Once you have made your choice click OK at the bottom of that box to save and exit. Then click "OK" on the next box to save and exit and return to Internet Explorer.
From now on you won't have that pop up come up any more. Thank you very much for reading this and I hope dearly that this has helped you out.
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