Questions tagged [safe-browsing]
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Disabling or Limiting Tor Functionality in Brave Browser on macOS
I'm seeking guidance on how to disable or limit the Tor functionality within the Brave browser on my macOS system. While I appreciate the privacy aspects that Tor integration provides, I have specific ...
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Can a website in itself be dangerous?
I do understand that there is a risk of phishing, and that it downloads files that may cause harm when opened. But is there any risk of something bad happening when I simply open a website? In that ...
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Extensive use of CPU by antivirus
I have Guardian NetSecure anti-virus installed in my PC.
Task manager shows that a process named Browser SandboxSafe Browsing Security Service(Core Browsing Protection), which seems to be part of the ...
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Is there a way i can protect myself from DDOS attacks?
I got my IP spoofed somehow and how? Its because i visited a site which has a ip grabber and then a redirect to the site and my router is ADB and it has firewall but i don't think it won't help so i ...
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Is there a minimal browser specifically designed to prevent drive-by malware?
After my father's PC (with Avast and Firefox configured to auto-update in the background) got infected, most probably via a drive-by download, by a ransomware, I was wondering how I could prevent that ...
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Restrict Firefox to specific sites
There are a few particularly pernicious sites that I actually use who also monitor users activity everywhere online, mostly just Facebook, but every so often I'll log into a Google service.
I'll ...
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How do I block a blogspot site using hosts file?
I have a blogspot site, say ABC.blogspot.com which I want to block. When I add the following in my /etc/hosts file, it has no effect:
127.0.0.1 ABC.blogspot.com
The site still loads as usual. Can ...
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How do I block orkut.com on a shared PC?
My PC is also used by my son who has this habit of overspending time on orkut.com
How can I limit his time using orkut?
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What is the best way to browse the web safely? [closed]
At the recent pwnown we saw every single browser, from IE to Chrome, miserably hacked. That scares me. How should we browse the Internet safely but continuing to enjoy it? (using lynx is not an option)...
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How to remove tracking cookies
I am looking for a tool that will be able to (ideally) proactively block tracking cookies in a browser as I don't really like to see the relevant ad from the sites I visited on other web sites. After ...
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Anonymous browsing solutions other than TOR and HTTPS Google
Are there any anonymous browsing solutions other than TOR that meet the following requirement:
quick (TOR goes through lots of slow foreign proxies)
completely secure and untraceable on which sites ...
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anonymous browsing
I just watched a video by Eben Moglen about the increasing surveillance of our connected network devices and a lot of what he said rang true. The video can be found here if you're interested. I'm not ...
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what are security implications of running Ubuntu inside Windows 7?
I am thinking of switching to Ubuntu as a way of making web browsing more secure. So, suppose I will go the easy route and run Ubuntu as an app inside Windows and then run Firefox inside of that. What ...
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How to disable Google Chrome from sending data to safebrowsing-cache.google.com and safebrowsing.clients.google.com?
Unchecking Enable phishing and malware protection in Chrome's browser settings page does not prevent Chrome from communicating with safebrowsing.clients.google.com and safebrowsing-cache.google.com (...
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Cookies are retained even after explicit delete in IE8
I need to be able to delete my entire browsing history in IE8. Even after explicitly invoking the option of clearing browsing history from within IE8, I notice some cookies and files do not get ...
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