Protect Your System From the Internet Evils

Written by Daniel Punch


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Next up isrepparttar Spyware and ad blocking software that wasrepparttar 107420 initial concern. The two major software packages for spyware protection and removal are Spybot- Search and Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html) and AdAware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) although there are alternatives including a recent Microsoft release. (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx). These threats are often not dealt with by Internet security packs (strangely enough) although some protection is now starting to be included.

Chances are you will have picked up an ad blocker somewhere inrepparttar 107421 collection of programs by now, but just in case you can make your Internet browsing experience a less commercial affair by downloading software such as Hitware Lite (http://www.rightutilities.com/products/hitwarelite/hitware_lite.htm) or Stoprepparttar 107422 Popup (http://www.stopthepopup.com/). These programs stop ads before they reach you, leaving you to browse onlyrepparttar 107423 information you're after.

Besides installing protection software your best bet is just to be careful with your surfing. Don't open weird emails with strange attachments if you don't knowrepparttar 107424 origins (don't even openrepparttar 107425 email... oftenrepparttar 107426 viruses and Trojans will have an auto open script written intorepparttar 107427 email itself, so you've instantly opened up your computer by simply looking atrepparttar 107428 email). Be careful aboutrepparttar 107429 sites you visit. Make sure that you're well protected before enteringrepparttar 107430 Internet 'grey' areas, such as ROM, Warez, Appz etc. sites. If you perform a web search and some ofrepparttar 107431 sites that show up have descriptions and titles consisting only of keywords, it's usually a fair bet that you should stay clear of that site. It usually won't have anything useful to offer and may contain hazardous material. With a bit of care you can keep your system going strong and enjoyrepparttar 107432 Internet safely and relatively ad free.

Daniel Punch M6.Net http://www.m6.net Daniel Punch is a paranoid computer user with more protective software than can possibly be healthy.


Explore the Internet in a Whole New Way

Written by Daniel Punch


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The next feature that caught my attention wasrepparttar search bar built intorepparttar 107419 browser. It's small, sleek and simple, built intorepparttar 107420 right-hand side ofrepparttar 107421 main toolbar besiderepparttar 107422 address box. You can add many different sites torepparttar 107423 search bar and then selectrepparttar 107424 site you wish to search from a drop-down menu. Then it's simply a matter of typing your query in and hitting enter to be taken directly to that page and your search results. This makes searching Ebay, Google, Internet Movie DataBase, Amazon etc. very quick and easy as you can simply type inrepparttar 107425 desired search criteria as you think of it and getrepparttar 107426 results back fast. You can get search bar plugins for IE but they tend to take up lots of room, contain ads, and you can usually only have one site per search bar.

There are more features than I could write about here but I will tell you that Firefox has impressed me greatly. Browser hijacking:repparttar 107427 act of a malicious website script changing your homepage or search page (particularly common on IE, sites will change your default search page so that every time you type an address into your address bar their site gets a hit) is now a thing ofrepparttar 107428 past (at least until someone gets vicious enough to work out backdoors in Firefox, an unlikely event for at least a little while givenrepparttar 107429 massive market share still held by IE). Since changing over I have received substantially fewer attack notices from my Firewall. Sites load quickly, and if you get an address wrong you don't have to wait for a page to load, you just quickly get a message informing you thatrepparttar 107430 site doesn't exist. Then there arerepparttar 107431 extensions that can be downloaded to add all sorts of new features torepparttar 107432 browser.

The only downside that I have found isrepparttar 107433 fact that because IE isrepparttar 107434 dominant web browser, some websites are coded in such a way that they don't work properly on other browsers. These sites are few and far between, but occasionally you will still need to fire up IE to view a page. The infrequency of this occurring is enough that it doesn't annoy me too much, but it will be nice when everything works 100%.

Atrepparttar 107435 end ofrepparttar 107436 day, it's probably not a vital switch. Both programs suffice in allowing you to plug in and explorerepparttar 107437 vast world ofrepparttar 107438 Internet with ease and accuracy. However, it's worth a look though because what starts off initially as "I have no real reason to change back" quickly becomes "I am never going back". So, asrepparttar 107439 official Firefox website encourages, "Rediscoverrepparttar 107440 web".

Daniel Punch M6.Net http://www.m6.net Daniel Punch is a university student always looking to overthrow the man and support the underdog, provided it doesn't actually cost him anything.


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