Suggested Sites functionality must be disallowed.

From Internet Explorer 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of DTBI765 - Suggested Sites Functionality

Associated with IA controls: ECSC-1

SV-40759r1_rule Suggested Sites functionality must be disallowed.

Vulnerability discussion

This policy setting controls the Suggested Sites feature, which recommends sites based on the user's browsing activity. Suggested Sites reports a user's browsing history to Microsoft to store and monitor user page activity to suggest sites the user might want to visit. If you enable this policy setting, the user will not be prompted to enable the Suggested Sites and the user's browsing activities will be sent and stored online to produce suggestions. If you disable this policy setting, the entry points and functionality associated with this feature will be disabled.

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Set the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer -> "Turn on Suggested Sites" to “Disabled”.

Pro Tips

Lavender hyperlinks in small type off to the right (of CSS class id, if you view the page source) point to globally unique URIs for each document and item. Copy the link location and paste anywhere you need to talk unambiguously about these things.

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