How To Lock Down Internet Explorer

2. Launch Internet Explorer if it is not already open.

3. Click on the "Tools" menu of Internet Explorer.

4. Select "Internet Options..."

5. Select the "Content" tab.

6. Find the "Content Advisor" box (near the top of the window) and click on "Enable..."

7. If you have ever used Content Advisor before, you will be prompted for your Content Advisor supervisor password. If not, you will be invited to choose one, and to supply a hint to help you remember it.

8. You will see a message informing you that "Content Advisor has been turned on." Click OK.

9. Click on "Settings" in the "Content Advisor" box.

10. Click on the "General" tab.

11. Make sure "Users can see sites that have no rating" is not checked. Leave "Supervisor can type a password to allow users to view restricted content" checked. Trust me here: you will need to make exceptions and add new allowed sites, and you won't want to come all the way into "Internet Options" just to do that. Things come up.

12. Click on "Rating Systems..." in the "Rating systems" box.

13. If you see any Rating Systems listed, select each in turn and click the "Remove" button. You are doing this so that we can set up our special "fake" rating service that doesn't rate any sites. You can add other rating services back later if you change your mind about using this method.

14. Click the "Add" button. When the list of files appears, select NoAccess. If you do not see it, you probably didn't save NoAccess.dat to the right place in step 1. Go back and correct that.

15. You will see NoAccess in the list of rating systems.

16. Click "OK" to close the "Rating Systems" dialog.

17. Click on the "Approved Sites" tab in Content Advisor. Type in the name of a site you DO want to allow users to access, such as:

www.google.com

Then click "Always." You don't need the "Never" button as all other sites are already forbidden. You can use the "Remove" button if you add the wrong site by mistake.

18. Repeat step 17 for as many sites as you wish. You can add more sites later, here in the Content Advisor or via the dialog box that pops up when a user tries to access an unapproved site (only with your password, of course).

19. Click "OK" again to dismiss "Internet Options."