Internet Security

Have you used Microsoft security essential and Internet explorer 9

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Hi friends, Microsoft security essential and Internet explorer both are free, and can be downloaded from microsoft site, But how many of you have installed them. Because you don’t trust microsoft products for virus security and browsing. But now microsoft has done some implementation in these products. Yesterday I downloaded and installed both software on my PC and both are working well, even I am writing this post in IE9.

About Microsoft security essential-If you are using a trial version of antivirus or a free antivirus or don’t want to waste money in purchasing a license version Microsoft security essential is for you. It’s work like a antivirus……No, No, No what i am saying Its a antivirus but it works so quitly and smoothly, so you don’t realize you have installed a antivirus software.Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
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Internet Explorer 9- IE9 look like google chrome, What to say about IE9 every browser now comes in the shape of Google chrome, No toolbar, No bigger space consuming menu and fast. IE9 is the first browser from microsoft that I liked otherwise I hate IE(Always show the message IE is not responding and crashed)
Microsoft has done some implement to make it stable and fast after a long time when they saw themselves disappeared from browser market.Tab management in IE9 has a few new touches, including the ability to tear off tabs and drag them into a new window or dock them to the side of the display. You will find ask.com and bing as a default search provider, One of them is full of ads and second doesn’t work well. You will find many new features when you use it like pinned shortcut or warning in the bottom. The most important thing microsoft says It supports HTML 5. Let’s wait  for a stable release.
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Ways to Identify Safe Websites on the Internet

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Safe Websites
On the whole Internet, there are approximately more than 150 million active websites up and running. As a result, it often becomes a real challenge for the users to identify safe websites that are trustworthy and reputed. Have you ever wondered to know the reputation of a website before placing the order? Need to know whether a given website is child safe? Well, here are some of the ways to identify safe websites on the Web.
 

1. WOT or Web Of Trust (www.mywot.com):

WOT is a great place to test the reputation of your favorite website. WOT gives real-time ratings for every website based on the feedback that it gets from millions of trustworthy users across the globe and trusted sources, such as phishing and malware blacklists. Each domain name is evaluated based on this data and ratings are applied to them accordingly. A snapshot of WOT ratings for gohacking.com is shown below:
WOT Ratings for Gohacking.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
As shown in the above snapshot, the reputation of each website is shown in terms of 4 components where green means excellent, yellow warns users to be cautious and red indicates potential danger.
 
Trustworthiness signifies the overall safety of the website. A poor rating may indicate that the site is associated with threats like Internet scams, phishing, identity theft risks and malware. For more information on phishing, you may refer my other post on how to identify and avoid phishing scams.
 
Vendor reliability tells you whether a given site is safe for carrying out buy and sell transactions with it. An excellent rating indicates superior customer satisfaction while a poor rating indicates possible scam or bad shopping experience.
 
Privacy indicates about �to what extent the site respects the privacy of it�s users and protects their personal identity and data�.
 
Child Safety indicates whether the content of a given site is appropriate for children. Site contents like sexual material, nudity and vulgarity will have a poor Child Safety rating.
 
In most cases, the WOT ratings are found to be highly accurate. To check the reputation of any given website, just visit www.mywot.com type-in the address of your favorite website and click on �Check now�. This tool alone can tell you a lot about the reputation and safety level of a website. However, in addition to this, I am giving you another 3 handy tools to identify safe websites on the Web.
 
2. McCafee SiteAdvisor:

McCafee SiteAdvisor is a free tool that is available as a browser add-on. It adds safety ratings to your browser and search engine results. You can download it fromwww.siteadvisor.com.
 
3. StopBadware:

Using this tool, you can check whether a given site is said to have involved in malware activity in the past. To check this, go tohttp://www.stopbadware.org/home/reportsearch and enter the URL or domain name of a website and click on �Search Clearinghouse �. If the search does not return any result, that means the site was never involved in any of the malware activity in the past.
 

4. Google Pagerank:

Google PageRank is another great tool to check the reputation and popularity of a website. The PageRank tool rates every webpage on a scale of 1 to 10 which indicates Google�s view of importance of the page. If a given website has a PageRank of less than 3, then it is said to be less popular among the other sites on the Internet.
 
However, PageRank will only tell you how much popular a given website is and has nothing to do with the safety level of a website. So, this tool alone cannot be used to evaluate a website�s safety and other factors.
 
PageRank feature is available as a part of Google Toolbar. You can install Google Toolbar from http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/toolbar/ie/index.html.
 
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