ZonedOut – Manage Internet IE Zones

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This article will review the usage and features of ZonedOut, a free and complete Internet Explorer security zone manager. Spybot-S&D, SpywareBlaster and IE-SPYAD users can take advantage ZonedOut in managing sites in IE security zone.

Internet Explorer Security Zone and ZonedOut

One of the features in using Internet Explorer is to add or remove IP address and domains in the local intranet, trusted and restricted sites security zone. This feature is to control the security used on each site you plan to browse or prevent in loading contents.

The default Internet Explorer’s security zone manager is so lacking features that I decided to ask my friend Todd if he could develop a standalone IE security zone manager. He did it by creating and providing a free utility called ZonedOut.



ZonedOut requires no installation and it includes a small help file to help ZonedOut user understand the commands in using the application.

You can use ZonedOut to add bad domains or IP address in the restricted zone of Internet Explorer. As we already know any domain or IP address in the Restricted Site zones is prevented in loading scripts and ActiveX components. And if you have a list of trusted sites, you can add those sites to the trusted zone.

ZonedOut has more features than the default security zone manager in Internet Explorer including:

  • Export and Import the list of sites from or to a text file in IE’s trusted, local intranet and restricted zones
  • Remove either a single entry or all entries from a security zone in Internet Explorer
  • Whitelist a site or move a whitelisted site in restricted zone
  • Manually add a single domain or IP address to trust or restrict
  • Search function: Find any domain or IP address that is listed in particular security zone in IE.

ZonedOut is also capable of managing the zone for “all users” or “current user” only. This is useful if you are planning to control only your user account in Windows or by managing also the security zones in all users in Windows.

Important Notes:

Version 3.0 (and greater)

  • Sites in Local Machine Key Zones apply to all users of a Computer. Current User Key Zone Sites Only apply to the individual users. When switching ZonedOut to operate on the Local Machine Key, ZonedOut is actually telling Internet Explorer (via the registry) to Use the Local Machine Key instead of the Current User Key.
  • Leaving ZonedOut set to the Local Machine key when you exit ZonedOut means that Sites loaded into the Current User Key are Ignored completely by IE. It is, and will remain an option to leave your computer set to Use the Local Machine Key only -However I do not recommend it in any case. ZonedOut will always warn you if you are exiting ZonedOut with your machine set to use the Local Machine Key.
  • Also note that Sites can be imported/added to the Local Machine Key if they exist in the Current User Key, However the opposite is not true i.e. If you try to import sites into the Current User key that exist in the Local Machine Key - they will Fail to import.
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