GreenBorder is a new kind of protection for Internet Explorer (IE) and Outlook, and the folks over at GreenBorder claim that they “make IE safe to use. Really.” But what is GreenBorder? And what makes it different from all of the other anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-everything software that may not actually make IE or Outlook safe?

For that matter, can anything really make IE safe?

GreenBorder does indeed have a novel concept. It’s not exactly a firewall. It’s more like an ante-room. It calls it a “virtual environment,” and the way it works is like this: imagine that you are going out on a blind date. Now you don’t know anything about this person other than what you read in their online dating profile (hey, it’s Silicon Valley, isn’t that how everybody dates?), and so rather than inviting this stranger into your home, you meet them at Starbucks (hey, it’s Silicon Valley, isn’t that how everybody dates?) Once you get to know them, and see that they aren’t malicious, and are really who they say they are, you invite them back to your house.

That’s what GreenBorder does…

[GreenBorder: We "Make IE Safe to Use." Outlook, Too, continued]