subject: How To Enjoy Safe Online Shopping? [print this page] Nowadays most people choose shopping gifts online. In my opinion, it is popular mainly because it can provide gifts with high quality and lower price. In the current circumstance of economic crisis, online shopping will be a better way of saving money.
The security of online shopping has already drawn much attention of customers. If you want to enjoy a pleasant shopping experience, youd better learn some tips about online shopping.
1. Secure SSL Certificate
SSL means Secure Sockets Layer which can protect your private information such as billing and credit card information. When you want to buy something online, you have to make sure this website has an SSL certificate, because it can encrypt this sensitive information.
2. Anti-Virus Software
Now most users install anti-virus software for their computer, but we also need to mention we must be careful about the virus. If we have received a nameless email, in general we will not open it because we fear it is a virus. In addition, we are careful about download with the same reason.
So we need to choose suitable anti-virus software for our computer. There are many anti-virus software online, you can buy it or just download a free version.
Anti-virus software also needs to update in time, because the new virus emerge constantly. If you dont update your virus definitions, it would not recognize this new virus and delete it, so you must install the latest virus definitions to protect your system form malicious attack.
3. Adware/Anti-Spyware/Malware software
Besides virus, we also have to keep an eye on other malicious software such as spyware and adware which are potential dangerous for our computer. It also installs to our computer automatically like virus but they are more dangerous than virus. They are properly record all typing on the keyboard including your passwords and other personal information which may be cause great economical losses for us.
Internet also has this software which can keep malicious software from your computer. They are also has the free and fee version. Choose a good one and install in order to protect your personal information.
4. Install Firewall software
Firewall software is also important software in our computer. It can keep the unauthorized program or users from entering into our computer. These malicious software including virus, Trojans, worms, are all over the internet, we should be careful about their attacks. If we have installed
Firewall software, we would have less troubles when we are surfing on the net. You can install this software manually, by the way this has installed in Windows as standard.
It you have installed all software I suggested, you will have a safe online shopping and you can saving money for your family.
by: Tom Yongger
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