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Microsoft working on a BrowserShield feature for Internet Explorer web browser

Microsoft is the developers of the world’s most used web browser Internet Explorer. However, the browser has earned itself a bad reputation for being unsafe for browsing as most malicious attacks on the internet target the users of this browser.

The software company is now due to release an updated version of Internet Explorer browser with better security tools.

One new feature they are working on is based on a prototype framework called BrowserShield. This would let the browser intercept and remove, on the fly, malicious code hidden on Web pages. Users in the end would get a sanitized version of the webpage.

The tool was originally conceptualized by Helen Wang, a project leader in Microsoft Research’s Systems & Networking Research Group. Wang said in an interview on this tool: “This can provide another layer of security, even on unpatched browsers. If a patch isn’t available, a BrowserShield-enabled tool bar can be used to clean pages hosting malicious content.”

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