Anonymous Internet Browsing Guidelines

Threats from Identity theft is increasing day by day, and one needs to protect ones privacy. Anonymous internet browsing guidelines will help you to learn how to protect our data while you are surfing on the internet.

Do not post your personal Information

With the increase of internet threats especially from social networking sites and blogs, it’s essential not to put any personal information including your video or pictures on social networking sites and blogs.

Erase tracks

For anonymous internet browsing, It is important to erase your surfing tracks after using a shared computer. Following are the methods that you can use to erase your tracks if you are using firefox or IE7:

Firefox:

Go to Options, then Privacy, and under Private Data click "Clear Now." For more safety and security you may want to select "Always clear my private data when I close Firefox".

IE7:

Go to Tools, and then select Delete Browsing History. If you select Delete All then it will erase everything stored: history, cookies, temp files, and stored passwords.

Safeguard your folders

In order to password protect your folder either you can use Folder guard or use WinZip to compress your folder, and than give that zip folder a password.

Hide yourself behind proxy

Proxy service keeps the identity of your computer hidden from the internet. You can use Anonymizer's Anonymous Surfing to achieve this. In case you are looking for free proxy services then you can have a look at Megaproxy. Hiding behind the proxy must be the first step before performing online shopping and banking.

Password-protect everything

If you are not aware that you even can even password protect all the files that you create from Microsoft’s Word 2007 and later. Let me show you how:

Go to File Menu and select Save As, and then go to Tools menu and select security tab. Similarly you can encrypt/passwords protect your pdf.

Skip saving passwords

When using a shared or public PC, don't save passwords when asked for. Also make sure that you log out of sites, this will make sure that you don't leave your e-mail or online files open to someone else.

Use disposable Email for Registration

For every service online, they ask you to provide them an email for conformation. 10 Minute Mail offers free email addresses that last for only 10 minutes. If user wants more time they can just click to add extra 10 minutes, and they can also keep adding more time if they needed. Disposable emails are perfect for forums and signing up for sites that you think will sell or misuse your email address. 10 Minute Mail does not require any registration and does not force you to use a password.

Create a secondary e-mail

It’s recommended not to pass on your primary e-mail address to everyone except to your close friends and family members. For other get a secondary email.

Anonymous internet browsing is just one part of the process in keeping your privacy safe, Internet Privacy Resource, will help you to learn more on how to keep your privacy safe and secure. But remember it all comes after securing your computer.

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