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| Another way to sure up your PC securoty is to get an alternative browser to Internet explorer. While the most popular it is also the most insecure. One of the most regular things we have helped clients with regarding their PC is browser hijacks. A user can visit a web page with malware and without clicking anything have their home page changed or worse some symptoms include
Home page changed These all happen due to security exploits in Internet explorer. Even Wikipedia posted regarding IE's lack of security read more here We highly recoomend you change to firefox. It is a much more secure browser and even warns you about phishing sites (sites that pretend to be paypal, ebay or a bank to get your financial details) Firefox is very easy to install and very similar to IE but much more secure and customisable. You can easily import your favorites from IE so no worries there. What is more you can customise Firefox. There are hundreds of plugins and little extra programs you can get free of charge to augment your browser. Firefox also has tabbed browsing. So for example if you are reading three sites at once you can have them all in the same window with little tabs rather than filling up your address bar with windows. There is also a very useful multi search engine search box. You just select the engine you want to search and type in your term. You can customise the engines list too. The features of this browser go on and on. We recommend it mainly for security, speed and usability. In addition unlike IE security is carefully monitored and maintained bythe folks at Mozilla. Firefox is also recommended by Google you can get firefox here
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