Security I, Browsers II

Have you even noticed that why some toolbars/ ad-wares/ pop-ups added to your computer, without even you knowing it that you had installed any of these? Or your search engine/ homepage is moved to a different address? This is a common problem for many internet users, most of these are just annoying, but some of them are spy-wares that tracks every sites that you are visiting and gathers all of your personal information such as Credit-card number. The average time that a computer ,without safe system, survives online is about 4 minutes, then it's in the hand of hackers and viruses. It's pretty wild out there!

• What's the cause of these problem?
• Many of these excessive applications come from unnecessary programs and or viruses and trojan back-doors. Or you had installed an application and didn't read their terms of service and/or paid attention to  their "extra features".
• How Could you stop them?
• ALWAYS read the checkboxes on installation app.  uncheck the boxes that are unnecessary, it's ok to cancel an side agreement, it doesn't affect your installation, even if does you can re-luanch the app, it's better than to reset your computer- especially browsers settings back to normal
• Change your homepage to something secure, like Google/Ask.com/Yahoo/Bing, every now and then check your search engine, you don't want your information transmitted to third party programs.
• delete web extension that you don't know that you have installed.
• Uninstall the applications from your commuter; it is recommended to Install Revo-Unistaller, that program doesn't just remove the base application, but it also scans all of your computer for any information and files related to your desierd application for uninstallation.
• Download safe. nothing good comes out of free[pirated] application, always ask"is it too good to be free?"

Happy Browsing!

Security I, Browsers.

Now that you know all the types of malware, and what could be the symptoms of it, you are ready to be protected from those programs.

First of all before going into purchasing any anti-virus software, you have to know how to protect your self first and block all of the exploits, because anti-Malware is not enough!

Browsers:

If you are a windows user, especially Internet explorer, go to their browser settings and change the security features to high, for unknown sites, this way unauthorized programs will not run automatically. Plus this will affect all of your browsers since I.E is the main browser in Windows. Then go to your own default browsers ,like chrome, and chose your own customized settings. If you normally go to sites with lots of suspicious activity, like bit torrent websites , than it's the best for you to have this settings adjusted to high.

What Else is Recommended?

• If you are tired of undying pop-ups, then install ad-blocker on your browsers, not recommended for .Com sites, but useful to be protected against harmful script pop-ups.
• Update your browser, old versions are more likely to be attacked/hacked than up-to-date system and browsers. 
• NEVER make a C# or C++ browser and use it as the default one. It's like swim in a lake full of alligators. You will be attacked within seconds. I've tired it it wasn't fun. It's okay to make one, but not to use it as default , you can learn to make one at H&L.
• Remove any toolbar that you don't recognize, they are most likely to be to be Spywares.

URL Change

Hello, The URL of this blog has been changed.

http://mahaneditor0023.blogspot.com/



For more info go to B.O/ Nov

Thankyou