Using the Internet Safely For Seniors

➟ Personalization:Browsers offer different levels of cus- tomization for the browser appearance, such as color schemes, themes t ...

➟ Look for the site’s privacy policy.Even when a site has been tested to ensure that it won’t dump mali- cious software on your ...

Microsoft is probably built into your Windows operating system, so it’s a good place to start. (Safari comes with Mac operating ...

6.The Backbutton on your browser takes you back, page by page, through where you’ve been. If you go back one or more pages, you ...

Blocker Settings command on this same menu to specify sites on which you do want to allow pop-ups. For details, see Chapter 15, ...

2.Type an address in the Addressbar and press Enter;the site appears in your newly displayed tab. 3.Click another tab to jump to ...

Use Default:This setting makes the MSN Web page your home page. Use Blank:If you’re a minimalist, this setting is for you. No W ...

Add a Web Site to Favorites Open Internet Explorer, type the address of a Web site that you want to add to your Favorites list, ...

Figure 4-9 Organize Favorites As you add favorites, they can become jumbled, and it’s helpful to tidy them up into folders or ot ...

Figure 4-10 View Your Browsing History Sometimes you need to find a site you visited but didn’t save as a favorite. To do that, ...

Figure 4-11 3.In the History pane, click the link to the site you want to visit (see Figure 4-12). It takes you to the site, and ...

You can empty your History file so that no one can see the sites you’ve visited. (Kids do this a lot to hide searches from their ...

You can use a plus sign to require that all terms are included in the results (such as dogs+retrieversso that the results inclu ...

Figure 4-13 Search Within a Web Page In addition to locating information anywhere on the World Wide Web, after you display a Web ...

2.In the resulting Find dialog box, as shown in Figure 4-14, type the word that you want to search for in the Findtext box. Use ...

Figure 4-15 Use Caution with Internet Ads There are several ways in which advertising on search engines or Web sites can place y ...

➟ Sponsored ad links:Most users believe that spon- sored ads (see Figure 4-17) have somehow been vouchsafed for by the hosting c ...

➟ Search terms:Choosing certain search words or phrases can also place you at risk. For searches that included the word free,14 ...

Avoid Download Theft and Plagiarism You know that copying material to claim it as your original work is pla- giarism, which is i ...

Many sites allow visitors to upload files that others (privately or publicly) can then download. On such sites, it’s safest to d ...