Petrovic Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Microsoft enabled a new protective feature in Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 10 recently that it introduced for its Microsoft Edge web browser back in November 2015. The security feature has been designed to prevent third-party software from changing the browser's homepage or default search engine. Search is a lucrative business and it is no coincidence that companies try to push adware or third-party tools to user systems to modify search providers. It is not only adware that does that, legitimate businesses, some that produce free antivirus solutions for instance, do the same thing but mask it behind a seemingly useful service. Users who notice these changes have often a hard time undoing them. Not only do they need to know how to undo the changes, they also need to make sure that the software that caused it is not running on the system as it might modify the settings again once it notices that they have changed. The protection that Microsoft implemented for Microsoft Edge and now also for Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 blocks the injection of DLLS in the browser unless they are signed device drivers or Windows components. Quote DLLs that are either Microsoft-signed, or WHQL-signed, will be allowed to load, and all others will be blocked. “Microsoft-signed” allows for Edge components, Windows components, and other Microsoft-supplied features to be loaded. WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Lab) signed DLLs are device drivers for things like the webcam, some of which need to run in-process in Edge to work. Internet Explorer 11 users benefit from the implementation right away. The only thing that they may have to do is install or pick a search provider that they want to use. They can rest assured afterwards that third-party programs won't be able anymore to modify the search provider or homepage of the Internet Explorer web browser. Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batu69 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Topic moved from privacy and security news forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 12 Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Very usefull,why not installed in Win7 also ,coz IE11 is still the standard browser in Win7 ............ Im using Spyware Blaster which does the same,protecting your home-page in IE11 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty6100 Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 As Archie Bunker would say: "Whoopdedoo!" Great they implemented this, but too little too late. Most people have moved on to better browsers. Edge is not much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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