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Top Tips To Protect Your Security Online
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Karl Sultana March 26, 2007
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These are some of the most dangerous things you can do online. They
are the most common methods people use to place themselves in danger on
the Internet.
Download attachements which are included in email
messages that are not from people you personally know. Even if you only
download them or open them cause you are interested to see what's insde
can lead to adware,spyware and related problems.
Downloading of
cracks from illegal websites, forums or groups. Cracks install adware
or spyware when they are downloaded. Registering on websites to be able
to download cracks is even worse.
Downloading of music from
unknown sources. First get advice by visiting yahoo answers. Find out
where people download music and trust big companies such as Google and
Yahoo. They provide videos and music such as music.yahoo.com
video.google.com
Join websites that require your home address or credit card information before you are accepted.
Give your credit card number by email to people whom you don't know personally.
Show off your credit card number in your Messangers such as Yahoo, AOL, or MSN messanger.
Give your credit card number by using Telephone when connected via Messangers with voice.
Same way you should never give your email address to people whom you don't know personally or you feel they do not need it.
Copy
images you get from other websites and place them on your own sites.
When you are online, you can see anything but in order to use something
you need permission. You can even break the law in certain cases.
Send
bulk email in any way. That means you send messages to people who did
not request your messages or they don't know you personally.
Join
porn websites that need your credit card information for a free trial.
You cannot trust all porn websites. Porn websites are dangerous cause
they contain most adware, spyware and other bad objects.
Post
your photo online and include it anywhere you wish with your physical
email address or phone number. Everything online can be collected by so
called spammers that want to make money.
Do you need popup blockers?
Nowadays,
browsers such as Mozilla Firefox have popup blockers included. You
should also make well use of this extra extension. You can turn it on
from the Tools or Settings option in your browser.
Mozilla
Firefox popup blocker blocks most of the popups on websites. Though if
a websites contains popups that cannot be closed you can add that
website to the block list so the popup blocker automatically blocks its
popups. You need to go to your browser settings to edit certain
functions.
You can then allow certain websites to open popups if you need to. The term popups refer to windows that open without your permission. These can be big or small in size and usually contain either advertisements.
You
should ignore these false claims you see on websites. Most often the
software that you download also contain adware, spyware and other
infections. That is also another reason why it is best to ignore these
warning signs in the form of popups. Some popups try to make you
believe you are a winner of a competition or contest or anything else.
There
are different versions of these popups. Some want you to call them so
they can spam you, others want to steal money from you after you call
them. Your popup blocker usually detects and blocks these message. They
are also very compelling messages but you should ignore them.
Some
people install Memory boosters, which are software that is suppose to
speed your memory for faster performance. A similar software is the
Internet speed booster. There are many of these special software all
different but have similar functions.
They might work, but we
tested them and results of improvement were not seen. Further more
these work on the backround and and take up resources. Doing so the
performance and speed of the PC will decrease instead of improve. These
software don't seem to do what they claim.
To improve speed of
your Internet, you can upgrade to a better ISP, internet service
provider. That way you see real changes. Do a bit of research to find
an ISP that allows faster downloading and uploading. To improve the
speed of your memory you can do the most common methods which are,
remove unwanted files, folders, clean PC and bad registry values. Here
we recommend you use a registry cleaner for such purposes.
The
Eusing registry cleaner (eusing.com) does all that and more. That is
the best way to boost the memory of your PC and overall performance.
Most
often you are researching online and you see warning signs in the form
of popups. These all warn you or even worse try to make you believe you
have infections on your PC. These are all false claims by certain
companies that want you to download their own software.
That is
some important information that will esure your security, privacy and
computer is less in danger. Following that advice you will find less
troublemakers online. |
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