How to manage the Internet Explorer 7 Phishing Filter in your enterprise

This article describes how to configure the Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Phishing Filter to work with your corporate network Group Policies and trusted site lists.

Phishing Filter and Group Policy

In Windows Internet Explorer 7, the Phishing Filter feature is fully controllable as part of the Group Policy settings by using Internet Explorer 7 security zone settings. You can set the Phishing Filter to not check the sites in the trusted zone.

By default, Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7 does check the sites in the trusted zone. However, you can turn off checking for this zone. You can then add your own custom list of sites to the trusted zone for your enterprise and include sites that the company has decided are "safe" or "trusted."

The sites in the trusted zone are trusted locally by the Phishing Filter and are never checked automatically.

Phishing Filter and trusted sites

As an enterprise administrator or as an individual user, you can add your own list of trusted sites for the company or for yourself and then turn off the Phishing Filter for the Trusted sites zone. To add trusted sites and turn off Phishing Filter for these sites, follow these steps:

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
3. Click the Security tab.
4. Click the Trusted sites icon, and then click Sites.
5. In the Add this website to the zone box, enter the Web site URL, and then click Add.
6. Close the box.
7. On the Security tab, click Custom level, and then select Disable under Use Phishing Filter. You may have to scroll through several items.
8. Click OK.

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