Safer Browsing 2015

DNS

1. Use a hosts file – I like the one from MVPS.org

2. Use OpenDNS or Google DNS

COOKIES

1. Block 3rd party cookies by default

2. Use a cookie whitelist extension – e.g. Vanilla for Chrome (doesn’t prevent the cookies from being recorded, but automatically deletes them)

BLOCK ADS –  ublock or Bluehell Firewall

FINALLY IMPORTANT TIPS

1. Don’t do any risky browsing on your main computer – have a “honeypot” type PC not connected to your network for this

2. Following on from that, don’t trust other people with your main PC. Let them use another PC, or at least another OS on a separate partition of your PC, or at the very least create a Guest account with which they have limited access to your files and cannot install programs.

3. Do financial things on safe known sites. Using a safe PC (perhaps using a liveCD Linux distro) and an updated stable browser. Use secure passwords (ones that are memorable and combine lowercase, uppercase, numbers and symbols with sufficient length)