Even the most luxurious in the decoration of your Internet cafe Internet, also can not guarantee your safety, use of spyware, bad guys can steal your password and user name. Results, you may lose money or identity stolen by others. This enough for your PC that similar Internet cafes remain vigilant public PC terminals.
Wears a "hacker" while criminals frequently use the software to steal information, as for the layman, these software is invisible. In fact, by placing it between the keyboard and computer hardware, you can also steal information. However, such a public place in the Internet cafe to use it is too obvious.
Some spyware can secretly record user's every keystroke. Keystroke loggers can be pre-planned information collected by e-mail sent. Such software can be downloaded. Other software can run on the computer screen when the scan, and then also sent by e-mail the information collected.
Imagine if you landed in the Internet cafe computer, online banking, just keylogger software record the information you enter, your account number and password will undoubtedly exposed to the criminals, the consequences can be imagined.
As mentioned earlier, spy software is invisible. But note that in addition to spyware, but also there are many many other threats.
Tips 1: Check the Spyware
More and more companies have introduced a system security spyware removal tools such as antivirus software Rising have some of this functionality.
Tips 2: History is important
When you use the Internet browser, it will record the pages you view. The use of Microsoft's IE browser to surf the Internet after they have finished, click "Tools" -> "Internet Options." In the "General" tab, click "Delete Files" and "Delete Cookies", and click the "Clear History."
NetscapeNavigator if you are using a browser, check the settings before going online. Click on "Edit" and "Preferences", click on the arrow next to Navigator and select "History", on the right find the "Browsing History", to "Remember visited pages" and change the value to 0.
Click the "Privacy and Security" next to the arrow, select "Disable Cookies" and "Disable Mail and News group Cookies".
After surfing, click the "Edit" and "Preferences." Click the arrow next to Navigator, click the "Clear History" and "Clear Location Bar." On the left, "Privacy and Security", click the arrow. Select Cookies. Click "Manage Stored Cookies". In the "Stored Cookies" tab, click the "Delete all Cookies".
Turning now to the left panel, the "Advanced" tab. Click the arrow and click on "Cache." Click "Clear Memory Cache" and "Clear Disk Cache."
Tips 3: protection of the password is the key
Browsers also track passwords. Before the Internet, if you use IE browser, click on "Tools" -> "Internet Options." In the "Content" tab, click "AutoComplete." Then remove the four boxes.
Finish surfing, again click on "Tools" -> "Internet Options." In the "Content" tab, click "AutoComplete." Then click on "Clear Forms" and "Clear Passwords."
Clear your browser's information will ensure that no one can save the data to track your surfing or grab your passwords. However, keyloggers are still able to access your password.
If you put your password in and then paste the copied characters or numbers, some (but not all) keyloggers will be invalid. For example, you open the browser page, there are many characters, and your password is "tjjtds" (best not so simple!), A web page to find "j", "t" and "s", then Copy and paste them into the password input box. Although very simple, but really very effective.
Perhaps the best way is to use password protection temporary password. You only use it one time, then discarded.
Tips 4: Good encryption software does not necessarily
Currently on the market a large number of encryption software, which can be used to encrypt e-mail. However, the encryption software is click the "Send" button when on the e-mail encryption, if the computer is installed key-logging program, even if encryption is also too late. Keyloggers in your password and e-mail to do when the next record.
This process allows for files, folders, or even the entire partition is encrypted, and only enter a password before access to the data. However, it seems useful not particularly large. Do not pin their hopes on other people!
Tip # 5: the most simple and effective method
Internet cafes with computers is likely to be safe, but you can not confirm this. You can guarantee the security of your home computer, but you can not determine the public computers on Internet cafes that have taken security measures.
Use these computers to be especially careful to avoid using computers in Internet cafes to conduct banking or stock trading, to avoid credit card transactions. If you must check your email, please use a temporary password. And asked the system administrator how to "expire page views."
If you just surf the Internet, it may not be a problem. However, if possible, to avoid sensitive matters, because there might be a terrorist in the watch for you.