Vista suddenly pops up a Protected Zone

When my friends ask me how I am finding Vista as compared with XP, I merely
tell them that I have found no new features or functionality.There are only
more autocratic and annoying controls and Vista tries to organize things for
user without giving him the freedom to decide whether he wants his files,
folders, task bars, toolbars and what not by Vista's own idiosyncratic
ideas.

I have been using Vista for the last 3 weeks but never was stopped by a barrier called the Protected Zone, so far. Today I found the Internet Explorer flahing a protected Zone signal in the bottom bar and denying me access to the web-page of
Star World, a TV channel seen in Asia, when I tried to see the channel
schedule for today. Obviously, it is idiotic to bar me from a web-page which
I frequently check and should not suggest any harm to the most sensitive
nose of any security expert. There are already three other security barriers
raised by Vista, operational in my system: 1) Firewall, 2) Malware
protection and 3) Other security settings. On the top of that now comes the
Protected zone which is supposed to protect the user from malware.

It is unfair to spring a surprise on the User and suddenly activate a new Security barrier. The least that could be done before arbitrarily prohibiting access to web-pages would be to ask the User if he wants all his frequently visted web-sites listed in Favourites by him to be excluded from this dictatorial ban. Could Microsoft not have provided at least the option of excluding web-pages listed by the User in his Favourites list, since those are pages which he probably visits regularly? No such luck. I got so annoyed with this arbitrarily imposed control that I went and unticked the box enabling this idiotic control which has a meaning only if a child is using a computer and is trying to reach a site by-passing parental control.

P. Jayant