Tip number one: Use anti-virus spyware and firewall software and make sure its up to date. This means that you should update your computer so that viruses are harder to come across on your desktop.
Tip number two: Read privacy policies to learn how your information will be used and protected. This is telling you to read all the instructions and know how the program works so you know what the program is actually doing.
Tip number 3: Configure your browser or operating system to manage pop-ups, cookies or block specific web sites. This means you should block all web sites that you dont want to be seen on your computer.
Tip number 4: Use more than one email adress so that one is reserved solely for your personal communication. What this says is that you should have multiple email adresses butuse one of them as your main email to comunnicant with others that you know.
Tip number 5: Look for third party seals or certification to identify companies.
Tip number 6: Back up important files.
Tip number 7: Provide email addresses and information that do not identify you personally on web sites you dont know or trust. That says to not give out your personal address on sites ur unsure of. Instead give the address of another email that does not hold your personal files.
Tip number 8: Change passwords on a regular basis. this is done so that your password is not easily detected
Tip number 9 :Use email encryption.
Tip number 10: Log in Anononymously or use anonymizing or free ID web sites to generate your ID. This means if your signing up for a social web site you shouldnt give our your personal ID.
Link: http://www.truste.org/consumers/consumer_tips.php/#tip6
Log-in anonymously or use anonymizing or free ID Web sites to generate your ID.
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