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Online Privacy Protection Methods - Digital Safety

Here are a few links to softwares and techniques you can use to have a safer, better, browsing and online experience !

Hi Everyone ,

Here are a few links to softwares and techniques you can use to have a safer, better, browsing and online experience !

Online Browsing Privacy

Fix:

- Try using your browsers Private Browsing features ( In Private for IE8 )

- Firefox users, you could try “Distrust” (http://www.gness.com/distrust/)

- Instruct IE to save its cache to a portable drive that you keep plugged in whenever you need to use the browser
(Open the Internet Options control panel, click the Settings button in the Temporary Internet Files section, click the Move Folder button, and navigate to a folder on your external drive.)

- Using a software utility to wipe the cache securely after you’re done surfing.
Try Eraser (http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/)

- Secunia Personal Software Inspector ( http://secunia.com/)

- If you suspect a virus infected file , go ahead to VirusTotal (http://www.virustotal.com/) , get the file scanned online by over 35 different AV engines.

Anti Phishing - The best approach, and the most straightforward, is never to click a link in any e-mail message to access your confidential sites. Instead, always type the URL or use a bookmark. That one habit will protect you from almost every phishing attack.

But no browser can completely prevent sites from tracking your visit. For better anonymity, use Anonymizer (http://www.anonymizer.com/) or the excellent Tor or The Onion Ring ( http://tor.eff.org/).

Password Privacy

Why You Should Care: Your passwords are the keys to everything you’ve locked inside.
These days everyone has a LinkedIn account, a Facebook profile, and a Twitter feed, and these information make it all too easy to guess the answers to commonly used security questions such as the high school you attended or the name of your dog. You may have blogged about these things half a dozen times or more.

Fix:

Use a password manager religiously, and back up your password files. Portableapps.com version of the KeePass software (http://portableapps.com/) is a good place to start. And once you’ve created a random, unguessable password, generate a second, different password in the manager - use as the answer to the inevitable “mother’s maiden name” question (or questions).

Mom may not appreciate being identified as Miss L33t#r5, but no one will ever guess that that’s how you listed her in your “secret questions” data sheet.

Also If you can restart a public PC that you need to use, then bring your own bootable OS ( XP, Linux, etc ) and preload it with an AV , Password Manager that could be downloaded at PortableApps.com

Also Be careful of Using Laptops in Hotspots for your Online Banking Needs !

Cell Phone Security

Fix:

Before you ditch an old phone, use your phone’s reset codes or menu options to clear your message archives and your contacts list. Check the ReCellular Data Eraser (http://www.recellular.com/recycling/data_eraser/) page to learn how to reset your phone, and follow the instructions there.

Fake Anti-Malware

Scenario: Fraudulently advertised, ineffective antimalware ranks among the fastest-growing types of online scams. Products with names like DriveCleaner, WinFixer, Antivirus XP, and Antivirus 2009 are touted through online ads that simulate Windows alert messages, warning you that your computer is infected with some sort of malware and advising you to buy a particular antivirus product to fix it.

Fix : Use a real anti malware , based on ratings done by independent researchers

OS Exploit Attacks ( 0h Day )

Fix : Smile and Pray

You just have to keep up on the latest security news and visit update.microsoft.com as soon as you hear about any out-of-band patches, rather than waiting for Automatic Updates to kick in.