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| Keep your PC and your identity safe when surfing the Internet and managing electronic mails. |
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| Safe Surfing |
- Make sure that your anti-virus program is enabled before
surfing the 'Net to stop viruses, trojans and other
malicious codes from sneaking
your computer.
- Use a firewall to block hackers. It may even speed up your
'Net traffic because it controls what programs will be
allowed to connect.
More about
firewalls.
- When you create passwords, try to use alpha-numeric
characters with at least 6 characters.
- Do not give your passwords.
- You will know if a website is secure if you see a pad lock
icon below the status bar of Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
- If you transact confidential matters like processing your
bank accounts or buying online, make sure that your
browser uses 128-bit encryption or cipher strength. To
see if your browser uses 128-bit encryption, go to Help>
About section of your browsers menu.
- Take an extra care on buying online. Some online stores
and auction sites may have "bogus" prices and
services that seems to good to be true. Shop smartly.
- Be sure to log-off properly if you're leaving a secured
site.
- If you give your kids access online, be sure to turn on
your browser's "Parental Control" option to keep
them away from adult sites.
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| E-mail Basics |
- Do not open e-mails from senders that you're not familiar
with.
- Do not open e-mails with "bogus" subjects.
- Always use filters to avoid junk e-mails and unwanted
mails.
- Caution on opening an attachment specially if you don't
know or not familiar with the name of the sender.
Attachments if opened, may have malicious codes like
viruses. So make sure that your anti-virus program is
running (and also up to date) when you are receiving and/or
sending e-mails from your web mail server and when you're
opening an attachment.
- Do not open attachments especially if it has a .VBS and
.EXE filename extensions.
- Use message rules to organize your e-mails.
- It is recommended to create another e-mail account so that
your primary e-mail will be used for personal
transactions.
- Sending an e-mail is just like sending an ordinary mail.
Before sending your e-mail, be sure to check its spelling
and grammar so that it is readable and easy to understand.
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