Making Internet Explorer more trusted

Posted by Ken Y-N on November 22nd, 2009 at 04:02pm

Here’s an interesting article I stumbled across on eWeek about a security wish list for the next version of Internet Explorer. Scott Crawford, an analyst with Enterprise Management Associates, had this to say:

"This [IE taking a more proactive approach to stopping attempts to compromise the browser] is in view with respect to the OS itself in Microsoft’s vision of Trusted Computing, where (to summarize) only trusted functionality would be permitted execute"

That doesn’t seem quite right to me… However, what I’d like to see would be support for the Trusted Platform Module built into the browser, so that when you are using secured services the host at the other end can attempt to determine whether or not the client has been infected with a keylogger or other malicious software. I believe I read somewhere that a version of FireFox has had this in it, and I’m also aware of another initiative about which I cannot speak.

Tags: eweek, internet explorer, microsoft

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