if you are novice or standard Internet user who want to stay safe while surfing Internet… follow this guide :D.
1. Think before you post
Unlike in the ‘real world’ where the unguarded remarks you make in pub late at night are as quickly forgotten by everyone else as they are by you, your online postings are not. Check the WayBack Machine (www.archive.org) for web pages you thought were long gone, or have a look at google groups for every newsgroup posting you’ve ever made. The moral of this story being, don’t post personal data online, because it’s wickedly easy to uncover if you know where and how to look.
2. Type All URLs
Never Click on links in an email message even if appears genuinely be from paypal, eBay or your bank, it’s to easy to obscure the real URL, so always fire up your browser of choice and log in to the site in question as normal, typing the URL in Manually.
3. Clean Your Clicktrail
A web browser keeps detailed logs of every online move. Cookies, cache, history, URLs entered and even files transfered are recorded. It all combines to form your clicktrail, and anyone who gets access to your browser can retrace your tracks. NetCaptor is a web browser that cleans up its own mess every time you close it, deleting the evedence using military-grade secure erasing techniques.
4. Don’t Get Phish Pharmed
You don’t need to click on anything to get conned by pharming. DNS servers can be tampered with to redirect your typed-in URL to a different e=website where your password can be harvested. Install and anti-pharming devise such as NetCraft Toolbar which display the actual country hosting teh siet you’re visiting based upon IP address and not DNS, along with fraud rating. If National Australia Bank has upped and moved to Russia the it’s best not to proceed. last time I saw in news that someone lost all his money in his account after doing Net Banking, well it not supprise, someone already collect his password :D. The SpoofStick Toolbar unravels those long and complex URLs to display the ‘real’ URLs of the site you’re visiting.
5. Payment Protection
Only use secure websites when submitting credit card payment details. This is a obvious piece of advise perhaps, but it’s not always clear which sites are secure. Look to the address bar for a URL starting with https:// instead of just http:// Â and double check that the padlock icon in the bottom right corner of your browser client is snapped shut.
6. Dialog Box Fatigue
with so many pop-up dialog boxes asking if you agree to terms and condition, it’s hardly surprising that fatigue sets in and you become accustomed to just clicking ‘yes’. This is a BIG MISTAKE. Rogue dialers have been able to succeed because before they connect you to some foreign land at premium rates and stuff your computer full of spyware, they actually ask your permission.
7. Disable auto-complete
Internet explorer stores all the details you enter in online forms so it can fill them in automatically for you in the future. That’s add very well, but if some one else uses your computer they get automatic access to your data. Go to Tools | Internet Option|Content | Auto Complete and unchecked everything. while yo’re there you may as well clear both the form and passwords stores.
8. Dump Internet Explorer
As the world dominant web browser, Internet Explorer understandably gets more attention from hackers than any other browser. Secunia keeps tabs on all browsers and IE has racked up an astonishing 20 out of 81 advisories that are mark as still being unpacthed. This is one of the reason why so many people have switched to a different browser such as Firefox or Opera. You should seriously consider doing the same
9. Browse anonymously
wherever you go online, your IP address goes with you - it’s a fundamental part of how the Internet works. every site you visit knows you’ve been there because you leave behind a virtual footprint, unless you put a proxy server between them and you. You can make this happen by using service from Guardster or Anonymizer Instead of your IP address, it’s proxy server that gets noted, allowing you to surf in secrecy.
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