Using Security Zones
The principal tool that all versions of Internet Explorer since 4.0 have provided is a set of security "zones." With these zones, you can segregate the Web sites you visit into categories, depending on the degree of trust you accord them. To each zone, you can apply a constellation of security settings so that the sites you trust are given greater latitude than the ones you do not trust.
Caution
Changes to Internet Explorer's security settings also affect other applications that use the Windows HTML rendering engine, including (among others) Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, and other e-mail clients; Microsoft Windows Media Player; Help and Support; Microsoft Money; and Quicken. This shared functionality has its benefits, ...
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