making IE secure on a multi-user machine

[Kenneth R. Irwin]

Hi folks,

I expect this has been addressed, but searching through the archives for IE 
security issues is almost pointless; I hope someone will know what the 
specific words I'd need to search for are if nothing else...

Our local campus IT-folk don't like to run IE on campus because they say 
all the personal information (cookies, bookmarks, history etc.) get saved 
in a C: cache once a (Win2K) network user logs off, thus creating potential 
security problems. Their answer is to cripple IE so no personal settings 
can be saved - bookmarks, homepage, etc. That leaves the increasingly 
decrepit NS4 as the only supported browser on campus (I don't even want to 
talk about why that's the case, but suffice it to say I'm not fighting that 
battle.)

Does anyone know of a good savvy way to make IE (5 or 6) safe from the 
security issues that concern them? I can't help but feel that there's a 
more deft way the disallowing personalization. If this has already been 
discussed ad nauseam, please point me to the archived discussion and that 
will hopefully suffice.

Many thanks,
Ken


Ken Irwin                                               kirwin at wittenberg.edu
Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian        (937) 327-7594
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University