Surfing Internet sometimes would make our identity open to everyone online especially to scam/spam. There are Internet fraud or theft may steal our money when doing online transactions.
I Have collection of answers. May I share these with you. Only I considered good or best answer I posted in this blog. I hope this will help and give some knowledge to new internet surfer.
Here are a few more tips:
*Answer from From Bill M,
Common sense is one good way to be safer when surfing the internet. Never click on any deals that you see. Giving your email address will expose you to a lot of spam. If you really have to leave your email address, check the site first if it has a good rating. Use a safe browser like Firefox and get the Web of Trust and NoScript addons to somehow filter out the bad sites.
1. Dont assume anything. Make some time to learn about securing your system.
2. Acquire and use a reliable antivirus program. Select an antivirus that has a consistent track record. Checkmark, AV-Test.org and TuV are among the most respected independent testers of antivirus software.
3. Acquire and use a reliable firewall solution. Again, independent reviewers are your best bet for reasonable choices. Some operating systems come with a firewall which only filters incoming traffic. Use a firewall that can control both incoming and outgoing Internet traffic.
4. Do not open e-mails coming from unknown or distrusted sources. Many viruses spread via e-mail messages so please ask for a confirmation from the sender if you are in any doubt.
5. Do not open the attachments of messages with a suspicious or unexpected subject. If you want to open them, first save them to your hard disk and scan them with an updated antivirus program.
6. Delete any chain e-mails or unwanted messages. Do not forward them or reply to their senders. This kind of messages is considered spam, because it is undesired and unsolicited and it overloads the Internet traffic.
7. Avoid installing services and applications which are not needed in day-by-day operations in a desktop role, such as file transfer and file sharing servers, remote desktop servers and the like. Such programs are potential hazards, and should not be installed if not absolutely necessary.
8. Update your system and applications as often as possible. Some operating systems and applications can be set to update automatically. Make full use of this facility. Failure to patch your system often enough may leave it vulnerable to threats for which fixes already exist.
9. Do not copy any file if you don't know or don't trust its source. Check the source (provenance) of files you download and make sure that an antivirus program has already verified the files at their source.
10. Make backups of important personal files (correspondence, documents, pictures and such) on a regular basis. Store these copies on removable media such as CD or DVD. Keep your archive in a different location than the one your computer is in.
Here are some free software that I would recommend:
Browser -- http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/abo…
Antivirus -- http://www.microsoft.com/security_essent…
Antispyware -- http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Firewall -- http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-secu…
Firefox addon -- http://www.mywot.com/
Firefox addon -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox…
Source(s):
*Answer From Vinit Gupta
Before using internet always use internet security and switch on your firewall....never disclose your id or password to anyone.....
*Answer from GameDay;
Bill has great advice
antivirus AVAST is very good if you want free
firewall Windows has a great firewall and you don't have to mess with it
antispyware Windows Defender is fine for this. It has full real time protection and none of the free ones have it.
You can use a VPN to surf the net and encrypt your data so no one can see it or steal it. I use one.
http://myvpnreviews.com/
*Answer from Jonathan G,
Use Norton Internet Security 2011 or Norton 360 Norton Internet Security because Norton Internet Security is the best internet security software according to pcpro.com and norton 360 has all the features of norton internet security 2011 but it includes pc tuneup and online backup.
All the norton products are on this website http://uk.norton.com/index.jsp
The cheapest place I have found where you can buy Norton Internet Security is amazon.com or amazon.co.uk.
Also when you are shopping online and you are entering you credit card details or you are entering your user name and password look for the letters https at the beginning of the web address.
Source(s):
www.pcpro.co.uk
amazon.co.uk
amazon.com
http://uk.norton.com/index.jsp
*Answer from Unknown,
some good info so far from everybody, but theres a few things said that are debatable
Windows firewall is not a good firewall, infact its a very simple firewall and generally doesnt take care of many exploits as it does not know about them through signatures or behavioural patterns. I would go with comodo if you want a free firewall.
Somebody mentioned free anti-virus software is poor and in some cases this may be true, but infact there is some good free software out there that in my experience has caught every virus that the paid for versions do. False positive's may often occur but thats something you have to deal with using any anti-virus. Comodo security suite also comes with an AV and gets updated often
edit: Dont buy norton, its a security suite made for people that dont know what they are doing, it sits running in the background with little user interaction, but this usually isnt a good thing. It takes up too much resources also compared to many other security software. And throughout the years norton itself has opened a gateway for hackers into your computer through bugs in its own software, there has been hundreds of exploits documented for norton, stay away.
http://www.bigextracash.com/aft/c1a8887f.html
No comments:
Post a Comment