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

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.

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