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<blockquote data-quote="Ramblin" data-source="post: 100814" data-attributes="member: 170">Three tips that work for me, I believe in them and no one has mentioned. One, just like Java can be a problem, plugins and extensions also can be. If we don&#039;t use a plugin, we should get rid of it. Four years ago when I started learning how to be safe, I had 13 plugins in my PC. The funny thing is that I did not know what they were, how they got in or if they came with Firefox. I thought they all came with Firefox. Wrong. None came with Firefox is what I learned. Anyway, little by little I stated learning about what they were and how I got them. When I finished with them, only one remained. That was Flash. I kept Flash because I use Flash. All the others plugins that I had, I had no use for any of them. If it sounds familiar, you should take a look at your plugins or Active X and get rid of them if you don&#039;t use them.Two, I normally stay around the same sites all the time. I visit all kind of sites but I have never gotten anything that looks or acts like malware from sites that I have bookmarked. What I am trying to say is, get to know the sites that you visit and bookmark and visit sites that you know that you never had any kind of problem when you have visited them in the past. Stay around the sites that you bookmark. I feel that the less that I go away from my bookmarks, the safer that I am. Thats my experience.Three, searches. Be extremely careful when doing searches. The last few times that I got infected or was close to getting infected was doing searches and I am not talking about searching for the &quot;good stuff&quot;, I mean searching for things like Dr Webb or Emsisoft. Sounds unbelievable but is true. Well, now that I know a little how the bad guys work, those close encounters with malware while searching for security products don&#039;t seem rare anymore.Bo</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ramblin, post: 100814, member: 170"] Three tips that work for me, I believe in them and no one has mentioned. One, just like Java can be a problem, plugins and extensions also can be. If we don't use a plugin, we should get rid of it. Four years ago when I started learning how to be safe, I had 13 plugins in my PC. The funny thing is that I did not know what they were, how they got in or if they came with Firefox. I thought they all came with Firefox. Wrong. None came with Firefox is what I learned. Anyway, little by little I stated learning about what they were and how I got them. When I finished with them, only one remained. That was Flash. I kept Flash because I use Flash. All the others plugins that I had, I had no use for any of them. If it sounds familiar, you should take a look at your plugins or Active X and get rid of them if you don't use them. Two, I normally stay around the same sites all the time. I visit all kind of sites but I have never gotten anything that looks or acts like malware from sites that I have bookmarked. What I am trying to say is, get to know the sites that you visit and bookmark and visit sites that you know that you never had any kind of problem when you have visited them in the past. Stay around the sites that you bookmark. I feel that the less that I go away from my bookmarks, the safer that I am. Thats my experience. Three, searches. Be extremely careful when doing searches. The last few times that I got infected or was close to getting infected was doing searches and I am not talking about searching for the "good stuff", I mean searching for things like Dr Webb or Emsisoft. Sounds unbelievable but is true. Well, now that I know a little how the bad guys work, those close encounters with malware while searching for security products don't seem rare anymore. Bo [/QUOTE]

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