NUMBER 1 TIP(firefox)

[tonyesquivel]

This tip is for Mozilla Firefox v.2 and Flash drive version, and may not work with FF V.3

Firefox 3.0 Review: reviews.cnet.com/browsers/firefox-3/4505-3514_7-33087853.html?tag=pm

Ok, my number one tip to prevent computer infections would have to be switch browsers if you use IE(internet explorer) to Mozilla FF(firefox).

Why you ask?

Because mozilla has been proven by computer professional(mr. mayor, jk he still uses IE) to be much more safer than IE. Also if your computer is infected, and you go to IE and check your Favorites, you will notice that you will have a lot of favorite links that you did not add(mostly porn), now go to FF and check and even if your computer is infected FF will not do that.
Not only that, but it also has a built in search engine on its address bar, which can be changed to either Google search engine,Yahoo search engine,Ask, amazon,Yahoo answers!, and many many more! Also comes with session manager, Say you were doing your homework and looking for a site to help you on it, than you finally find one that has all the answers and everything but no, your computer freezes or shuts down and you dont have time to copy the url of the site, well guess what Mozilla has time, when you boot your computer up again, and open Mozilla, it will ask you if u want to restore your previous section, and guess what? The site with all the answers to your homework is still their!It also has some of the best add ons that save you time, and make surfing the web easier.

Mozilla fire fox official site: www.mozilla.com/en-US/

also to improve your FF experience i would recommend you add these add-ons(which by the way are free)


Security Based add-on's

• McAfee Site advisor Compatible with FF 3.0
  Lets you know which sites have viruses, spyware etc. and tells you which ones it suspects might have.
  
  Download link:
  www.siteadvisor.com/download/ff.html
  
  
• Crawler Toolbar
  Lets you know which sites have viruses, spyware etc. and tells you which ones it suspects might have. Sort of like Mcafee but it actually stops the site from loading and ask's weather you want to enter or not. It comes free with spyware terminator which is also free.
  
  Download link:
  www.spywareterminator.com/download/download.aspx
  
  
• KeyScrambler Personal Compatible with FF 3.0
  Ever worry that their might be a keylogger that your anti spyware or antivirus is not detecting? Ever worry about your security when your typing in your Credit cards number? Well this add-on might not solve all your problems, but it can help a lot. It encrypts just about everything you type on your browser. It's a nice add on that works. I have tested it, and it definitely works.
  
  Download link:
  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3383
  
  
• Spamavert.com 1.0.0 (New)
  Ever worry about E-mail spam? Have you ever(or sometimes still do) made a new email, just to register on a site, because you dont want to risk your real email to spam sites? Well if you want to try and avoid spam via email this add on will do the trick! It allows you to right-click any text field on any website, and paste a free, one-time e-mail address from Spamavert.com, you dont even have to create one since they provide one for you! This is useful for people that always try to register on sites but are not sure if they trust them or not and dont really want to give their real email!
  
  Download link:
  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4533
  
  
  
• Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4 (New) Compatible with FF 3.0
  Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.(this was not written by me, i was too lazy to write a lil description)
  
  Download link:
  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
  
  
• TabRenamizer 0.8.11 (New)
  Tabs are way better than opening separate windows(IE users can relate), but same as windows tabs show names of what your on, wat if your at school and your on myspace with one of our proxys and you open a new tab to hide it, but it still shows and youg et busted! well not anymore, with tab renamizer you can rename your tabs and make it seem like your doing a Google search on world peace or on our schools home page, when your really not!
  
  Download link:
  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2987
  
  

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Handy Add-ons

• IE Tab Compatible with FF 3.0
  Yes even though IE is not as secure as FF, some sites require you to use IE to browse threw their site, so thats where this Add-on comes in handy. It lets you open up sites in IE without actually opening IE.
  
  Download link:
  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
  
  
• Download Status Bar Compatible with FF 3.0
  Ok Mozilla in my opinion is better than IE but it is not perfect. It does get annoying when you try to download something and the download screen pops up and gets in your way, but dont worry, with this add on you can get rid of that problem.
  
  Download link:
  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26
  
  
  
• FoxyTunes Compatible with FF 3.0
  Have you even wanted to change a song while you are on your browser? Well if you have Windows Vista, and you use windows media player than now you can do that without minimizing your browser. Good news for vista users right, but what about XP users or users who dont use Windows media player as their default? Well than their is FoxyTunes. It not only lets you change, pause, stop, mute a song, but it also gives you information on the artist, album and other things. It tells you other songs that sound similar or are in the same taste as the one you are listening to and best of all it supports many media players not just Windows Media palyer!
  
  Download link:
  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/219
  
  
• Forecastfox Compatible with FF 3.0
  Ever wanted to know what the weather is like or how its going to be, but you dont feel like going to a wheather website and typing in your zip code, then waiting for it to load? so you just dont look at the weather, and then you go outside and its freezing and you dont have a jacket, and then you regret not checking the weather. Or when someone tells you to check the wheather, but your in the middle of writing a big post and you don't want to get interrupted. Well ForcastFox makes it easy on you! how easy? how about just looking down at ur status bar easy! sound easy enough? Now you dont have to suffer the pain of having to check the weather or the pain of being stuck in the cold without a jacket!
  
  Download link:
  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/398
  
  
• Fast Video Download 1.6 (New)
  Have you ever wanted to download a flash video? from websites like youtube, myspace, daily motion etc. Well this add on is your solution! its easy to use and gets you the flash videos you want, in flv format, so dont forget to convert them!
  
  Download link:
  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3590
  
  

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I am working on more, way more.so expect to see many more.
feel free to add on to the list.

[alexander224]

theres another one that lets you press alt+click and does lik an instant search and its cool.i'll provide a link later.

[tonyesquivel]

k thanx. do u kno how to check ur PM's? Alexander

[alexander224]

heres a toolbar
thepiratebaytoolbar.ourtoolbar.com/


not really security but very useful if you d/l torrents from the piratebay

[tonyesquivel]

Updated

[alexander224]

Some of these are not supported by firefox 3(which i use), and the add-on i was talking about is
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/735

[tonyesquivel]

May 29, 2008 13:29:51 GMT -6 @alexander224 said:

Some of these are not supported by firefox 3(which i use), and the add-on i was talking about is
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/735

i added a lil text saying which ones i checked, and that worked with Firefox 3.0.