Windows Vista™ Inside Out

Blocking Objectionable Content

The internet undoubtedly has something to offend every taste and moral standard. Although objectionable content is not a security issue in the sense that it threatens the well-being of your hardware and data, some users might consider it a threat to other aspects of their well-being, so we’ll briefly discuss the most important features of Internet Explorer’s Content Advisor. When Content Advisor is enabled, if a user tries to go to a webpage that is beyond the limits you set, Internet Explorer won’t show the page. Instead it displays a warning message. Users who know the supervisor password (you supply this password when you first enable Content Advisor) can bypass the warning and view the page.

Content Advisor has ...