IE: password protection

When Windows 98 is upgraded, its built-in Internet Explorer 5.0 makes Web browsing faster, clean, and simple. However, the default settings of ie5 need to be changed, and some of its best features are also buried.

If you are a Netscape Navigator user, do not skip this section, you will find that ie5 and its competitors exist very well together and IE is a better solution for some tasks (such as completely saving the web page. If you use Quicken or other applications that work with the resource managerProgram, You will not select -- IE is an automatic pop-up browser.

Password protection

Ie5 adds a potentially dangerous new capability to the Automatic completion feature of Internet Explorer. Not only is the remaining part of a URL displayed in the address bar, this option provides the ability to save the user name and password so that you can automatically log on to the password-protected website. This is a hidden security vulnerability: If you save the username and password of your bank and broker's business account, anyone who uses your PC can log on and obtain this information. On a Windows NT Workstation, this option is relatively safe because you can prevent unauthorized users from logging on to your PC, but Windows 98 users should invalidate this option. In any ie5 window, select the Internet option under the tool menu, click the content tag, and then click the auto complete button. In the "auto-completion applied" area, the user name and password of the form are not selected. If you have inadvertently saved some sensitive information, click the clear password button. Restart your system to make sure that the settings change has taken effect.