6/24/2023 0 Comments Internet explorer 7 securityInterestingly, about 57% of you who read Naked Security from Windows computers are still using Windows 7. In other words, IE 10 (or 9, 8, 7 and so on) plus all available patches still won’t be as secure as a patched IE 11, in the same sort of way that a new car is generally safer than an old car of a similar type, even if both of them have been looked after properly and identically. Remember that when new browser releases come out, such as IE 11 to supersede IE 10, the new version generally starts off more secure all round, thanks to internal changes based on lessons learned during the lifetime of the earlier version. …and then creating an entry under that key to say: iexplore.exe = 1Īnother hardly-more-difficult way to suppress the notification is, of course, to install Internet Explorer 11. You can turn off the nag screens if you like, by the simple expedient (we’re kidding again) of creating a special registry key called: FEATURE_DISABLE_IE11_SECURITY_EOL_NOTIFICATION That’s a bad situation, so after 12 January 2016, once you’ve applied the latest security patches, your not-yet-updated-to-IE-11 Windows 7 computer is going to start issuing “ End of Life notifications“, or nag screens, as some are calling them. Just as we warned you about Windows XP all those years, and years, and years ago. If you do nothing, then any new security vulnerability announcement that applies to your browser will be a zero day hole (because it won’t yet be patched), and it will be a zero day hole forever (because it never will be patched). If you’re already on IE 11, you’re safe for the forseeable future.īut if you’re on Windows 7 and you haven’t yet updated to Internet Explorer 11, then next Tuesday, 12 January 2016, will be the last time you get any browser security fixes from Microsoft. So, please figure out what IE version you have – and we suggest that you actually check to make certain, rather than going with what you think the answer might be – and then ask yourself a question.ĭo you know when your Internet Explorer version will receive its last-ever security update? But Microsoft officially allows you to do it.) (No, we can’t figure why you’d want browsers on your cash registers, either, even if they were running the very latest Windows with all the very latest security improvements inside the kernel. However, even if you intend to continue using IE for ever, you may need to stop using the version you currently have after next Tuesday.įor desktop versions of Windows, your IE version should be one of these: If you have:įor embedded versions of Windows, you can extend that list back to Internet Explorer 7, which is still officially supported – for now, at any rate – on Windows Embedded for Point of Service. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, we’re very open-minded about browser choice, provided that you don’t knowingly choose an insecure one.Īnd, anyway, if you have Windows, you can’t easily use instead of Internet Explorer (IE), but only as well as, because Internet Explorer is officially a component of Windows, just like NOTEPAD. Only kidding! You can keep using Internet Explorer if you like.
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