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The MK Protocol Security Restriction policy setting reduces attack surface area by preventing the MK protocol. Resources hosted on the MK protocol will fail.

If you enable this policy setting, the MK Protocol is disabled for all processes. Any use of the MK Protocol is blocked.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the MK Protocol is enabled.

Supported on: At least Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1

Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_DISABLE_MK_PROTOCOL
Value Name	*
Value Type	REG_SZ
Enabled Value	1
Disabled Value	0

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