[WEB4LIB] making IE secure on a multi-user machine

[Andrew Mutch]

Ken,

Using TweakUI, you can use its IE and Paranoia settings to clear out IE's cache,
history, etc. What exactly is their concern as far as what IE leaves behind? I
can think of bigger security issues with IE than those. Those sound like more of
a problem with personal privacy than security.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI



"Kenneth R. Irwin" wrote:

> 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