- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (15-day trial); $30.00 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: August 23, 2004
- Total Downloads: 206,535
- Downloads last week: 8
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 26 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Intended to increase the usefulness of Internet Explorer, Secure IE offers extra features for tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, and security improvements. Also, though it represents a leap forward for IE, it doesn't improve much on IE's competitors. Although the tabbed browsing is convenient, you can't open sites in new browser windows. Its pop-up blocking is weak, failing some of our easier tests. It also purports to block Flash ads, but it seemed effective only half the time in our tests. Annoyingly, whenever it blocks an ad, the browser takes center stage, even if you were working in another application.
Secure IE's security manager lets you fine-tune how it handles ActiveX controls, cookies, and downloads. Its included download manager is a mix of good and bad points. On the one hand, it adds characters to downloaded file names, which keeps you from accidentally installing programs--a good security measure. However, that same feature makes it difficult to actually run programs you download. Its research features include adding notes or highlights to Web pages and toolbar access to multiple and customizable Web search engines. Secure IE offers some useful features for people still tied to IE, but its added features don't trump IE competitors.
Publisher's description
From Winferno Software :Secure IE automatically detects bothersome pop-up ads (including Windows Messenger ads) and stops them cold, while allowing "good" pop-up windows to appear. Users can choose to block or allow pop-up, Flash, or ActiveX ads in one click. Secure IE prevents adware, spyware, and keyloggers from installing on your PC and blocks hackers from using ActiveX to delete files from your computer, send e-mails, and obtain access to your private information. The exclusive Internet Security Manager automatically tunes your PC for maximum security, with no configuration needed. Secure IE also features a search toolbar that allows users to search popular Web sites (such as Yahoo, Google, eBay), and a multitabbed browser interface gives users access to multiple Web pages within one window.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.9 stars out of 26 votes
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Secure IE 2004
"Professional work, idea good. Useful product.But very large price."
Pros: Professional work, idea good. Useful product.
Cons: But very large price.
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2 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Secure IE 2004
Pros: Adds a little functionality for IE.
Cons: This is hillarious...you pay for adding some features to IE? It is basically the same browser that you can get free. And if you want more security, then just get Firefox or Opera. This is ridiculous...pay for increased security for IE (kind of ironic, since IE is not very secure), and still have the same old unstable browser. RIPOFF!!!
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Secure IE 2004
"Slightly more than internet explorer... but it's still IE"
Pros: 1. It's slightly more secure
Cons: Secure IE is a bit more secure but it is still effected by almost everything regular IE is effected by. Secure IE runs on the same engine as IE and cannot be a lot safer it continues to do that. Also, secure IE is still lacking a lot of basic features that other browsers include.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Secure IE 2004
Pros: It does improve IE's security but that still doesnt make IE secure.
Cons: This program is terribly misleading. It lets you think that if you use this, IE will be secure. It will not! It allows you to change options that could make it more secure but that's about it. Try Opera or FF instead of this.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Secure IE 2004
Pros: Nice addition for IE
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