No one likes annoying pop ups, annoying spyware and annoying worms that affect our computers and slow down our web browsing speed. How can we be sure of what websites to trust and what to not trust? This is a difficult question to ask if your pretty new to computers but others might find it a bit understanding.
I’ll cover some of the web browsers. Internet Explorer is not the only program you can use to visit websites. You have to understand, Internet Explorer is a product of Microsoft and Microsoft is one of the giant companies that are being targeted by hackers every day due to their non-open-source policies. Since Internet explorer is being exploited so much and hack attempts occur to Internet Explorer (IE), it is perhaps that most fragile internet browser out there. And yet, pretty much everyone uses this; It is
acceptable and safe if you are under an anti virus application such as Norton but lets say you do not have any anti virus, you will not last long.
The safest way to surf the way, perhaps is by having a firewall or some sort of anti virus running at all times. The reason a firewall is necessary (not the xp built in firewall, what piece of s***) because a firewall prevents all incoming ports to your Computer. Ports are like doors to your computer, the more you have open the easier for people to invade you, this is why routers are wonderful. Routers (gadgets that enable to use the same internet for more then one computer under a network) will also block all ports, this is very nice and if your routers enable you to see your stats, you would see the attack attempts at your router. An anti virus works similarly, the second you download a file or run a program that it does not know it will check it and if it contains virus it will alert you and ask you to remove it..this is good..until the hacker has some sort of remote access to your computer then he can simply installs his virus on your computer without you even noticing about it.
