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
I 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. 
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.
3 comments
Harsh says:
Jul 8, 2010
Haha, workarounds of security features always amaze me. More so when its Windows-related
Manas says:
Jul 8, 2010
Security feature workarounds are always useful.
In this case this particular thing was preventing me from using OnlineSBI.
Lynn says:
Jul 22, 2010
Thanks so much for a quick fix. It was preventing me from using iLink for a webcast.