Every day we wake up to hear about the new security flaws in the present computer world. .Have you ever thought how secure are your data and activities in the real world.Most of the users believe that having an antivirus and a firewall will keep them ‘ from all evils ‘.But the situation is changing day by day..Every day new and new vulnerabilities are found in almost all well known applications and implementations.We all know that more than 80% of computer user are running windows OS which is one of the least secure OS.Malicious PDF documents ,flash files,java applets and many more are around us which cannot be easily distinguished.They are capable of stealing your identity ,passwords,bank accounts,etc.Considering this present scenario here are a few things you should keep in mind while online.1.Never share password or username information with anyone.

2.Never run programs that look suspicious ,they may be sometimes programs with trojans binded to them.

3.While online make sure you have a firewall and an antivirus with real-time protection enabled.

4.Conduct a computer scan atleast once in a week,scan scheduling will make it easier.

5.Always take care to update your OS and softwares to its latest versions,especially in case of OS.

6.While on a public computer always clear the browsing history and cookies after use.

7.Always look for any additional startup programs .

8.While online check if the website you are logging in are having https protocol ,it is indicated by the symbol of a lock.

9.Use a good browser .There are many out there ,but i prefer mozilla firefox.

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Which is the best web browser?????…..this must be the most discussed topic when speaking about modern computer…..here we are providing youwith some details to help you choose the right browser for  you.….

CHROME

Windows only (for practical purposes, but soon on Mac and Linux, if we’re lucky): Some browsers have history going back to the early 1990s—Chrome, on the other hand, is the new kid on the race. Although Chrome has some relationship to Konqueror and is a cousin to the Safari web browser—both share the speedy WebKit rendering engine—Google’s browser is less than a year old. Despite its youth, it’s already garnered praise for its minimalist interface and snappy page rendering. Chrome also handles site errors and quirks well, and each individual tab is a unique process, so a crash or lag in one shouldn’t pull down or crash the others. In general, though, Chrome has caught attention for running a performance-focused JavaScript engine in a lightweight GUI. Also worth noting, Chrome has been holding its own in the recent Pwn2Own security challenge, with the distinction of being the only browser left standing after the first day of security exploits and attacks

Opera

Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera is a rock-solid browser with roots stretching back to 1994. Many of the features baked right into Opera are either not implemented in other browsers, or require multiple extensions at the cost of system resources—navigation by mouse gestures is one of the flashier examples. Despite being feature-packed, Opera has a fairly small market share, due largely in part to being trialware up until 2000 and advertisement-supported until 2005—many people were turned off by the expense, if not the ads. Still, Opera proponents have long claimed that Opera beats Internet Explorer and Firefox when it comes to speedy rendering. Another selling point for Opera is the quality of the built-in tools. For many users, the built-in RSS reader, email client, and BitTorrent client do their jobs admirably, cutting down on the number applications they need running at once. Opera is extensible, but the pool of available extensions is radically smaller than that available for Firefox.

Firefox

indows/Mac/Linux: Firefox is the grandchild of the venerable Mosaic browser and free-roaming son of Netscape. Although Firefox has a myriad of user-friendly, forward-thinking features, a decently secure framework, and an open-source ideology, its most prominent is extensibility. When convincing a Firefox user to abandon Firefox for anything else, even temporarily, you won’t have to fight them over giving up the AwesomeBar or about:config tweaks—you’ll hear a common, understandable refrain: “What about my extensions?” The repository of extensions maintained by Mozilla currently has over 6,000 entries, covering everything from blocking advertisements, to managing your clipboard, to allowing you to further customize your browsing experience with scripts a la Greasemonkey (here’s 10 of our must-have picks). Combine the passion people have for extensions and the ability tosync those extensions across multiple computers and portable installations, and you’ve got a force to be contended with.

Internet explorer

Windows only: Internet Explorer still commands a healthy chunk of the browser market, mostly because it ships with the most popular operating system on Earth and fits, if not exactly elegantly, into corporate computer plans. While many or most IE users stick with it for lack of wanting to try something else, Lifehacker readers definitely don’t fall into that crowd—the majority of readers who voted in favor of Internet Explorer are sporting Internet Explorer 8. By contrast, nearly 20 percent of those surfing the web right now are using Internet Explorer 6, which had its initial release in 2001. Version 8 could mark a resurgence for the brand, though. It’s the first version of Internet Explorer to have a strong focus on web standards compliance, as well as increasing rendering speed. And like Chrome, Internet Explorer 8 maintains a separate process for each tab to increase stability and security. Internet Explorer 8 has also beefed up its security measures from previous versions, including active filtering against malicious cross-site scripting and ActiveX isolation from the core of the browser.

Safari

Windows/Mac: Safari is Apple’s contribution to the web browsing world, built originally to fit snugly inside OS X. Like Chrome, Safari runs the speedy WebKit rendering engine for snappy page loads. In addition to its WebKit core, Safari also has the Nitro JavaScript engine, which lays claim to radically faster JavaScript execution than Internet Explorer and Firefox (in its own testing reports, anyways). Safari sports Apple’s Cover Flow browser for perusing your history and bookmarks and an eye-catching display of the top 24 sites you’ve visited as the default page when Safari is loaded