The IE URL Lock Browser Helper Object prevents users from navigating to web sites in Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer while permitting URLs that match a Perl-compatible regular expression stored in a registry list.

A URL blocker for you to use. IE URL Lock is a tool designed to prevent users from navigating to web sites in Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer while permitting URLs that match a Perl-compatible regular expression stored in a registry list.

This browser helper object helps computer administrators enforce Internet Explorer usage policies through the group policy editor that ships with Windows 2000 and above.

IE URL Lock scales from single home computers running Windows XP to geographically disperse networks running Microsoft's Active Directory system. As an example, you can use it to prevent your parents from mistakingly using Internet Explorer on their home computer. You can also restrict web browsing activity in your Active Directory network to only the work-related sites that each user needs for their duties, which can be specified either for each user or based on group memberships. Other possibilities exist, too.

URL Lock prevents users from navigating to web sites except for those that are allowed through one or more administrator-defined rules, which are written as Perl-compatible regular expressions. Users can either exist either on the local computer or across an ActiveDirectory network.

By operating as a browser helper object, the IE URL Lock restricts which locations a user can navigate to within both Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer windows. Active IEURLLock instances automatically detect changes to their registry values and will reload their configurations at their next navigation events, making real-time configuration adjustments on a local PC possible. On ActiveDirectory PCs, users will need to log off and log back on to see policy changes.

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this browser tool software.