Going Incognito
Have you ever been asked to disable your firewall or antivirus by tech support people for testing and they want you to surf on the net without protection just to test something.
If you are using google chrome or FireFox there is a way that you can surf an let your browser protect you a little. There is an option called private browsing or surf incognito that will stop the sites that you surf from saving cookies onto your computer. This will help when you are unsure if a site will try to put something on your PC. It will be removed as soon as you close the browser.
This protection can also be used to keep sites that you visit from being recorded into the history of the browser. Let’s say you want to surf some sites that you don’t want other people that might use the computer to know that you went to. Like at a internet cafe or library or school. You can start a private browsing session and surf to your online mail site or your banking site. All information will not be stored in the history so it adds another level of security for you.
Hope this helps you at some point.
