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Below describes 10 ways to secure your Windows Internet Explorer from hacker activities by software security engineer Jeff Forristal.

• Disable XPS Documents. Disable that new image format found in Vista. “Attackers have been having a field day exploiting image/document formats and parsers, so the fewer formats your browser supports, the better.”
• Disable Font Download. “If you don’t tend to browse websites outside your normal language, then you really don’t need this.”

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