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Internet Explorer has closed this webpage to help protect your computer – Fix

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Internet Explorer 8 frequently prevents me from visiting certain websites that want to use some add-ons to display the content. The error message will be

Internet Explorer has closed this webpage to help protect your computer

A malfunctioning or malicious add-on has caused Internet Explorer to close this webpage.
What you can do:
Go to your home page

IE SettingsI have checked all the add-ons installed and I could not find any malicious addon listed there. Did a simple search on Google, the solution is quite simple. It seems Microsoft decided to add some extra security to Internet Explorer 8 by guessing which websites are insecure. :D

Open Internet Explorer 8 –> Tools –> Internet Options –> Advanced.

Uncheck the option ‘Enable Memory Protection to help mitigate online attacks’. This can be found under Security section.

Written by Manas

July 8th, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Posted in Microsoft Windows

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  1. Harsh

    8 Jul 10 at 9:41 pm

    Haha, workarounds of security features always amaze me. More so when its Windows-related :D

  2. Manas

    8 Jul 10 at 10:51 pm

    Security feature workarounds are always useful. :P

    In this case this particular thing was preventing me from using OnlineSBI. :)

  3. Lynn

    22 Jul 10 at 7:15 pm

    Thanks so much for a quick fix. It was preventing me from using iLink for a webcast.

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