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Configuring Your Internet Safety Settings
Ellen Davidson
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With identity theft on the rise and the number of unpleasant things that can happen to people over the internet on the increase, your internet safety settings have become synonymous with making sure that you have the safety and security that you deserve. There are a number of different ways that you can prevent things from happening to you as a result of your internet use whether you happen to be using any HP products such as laptops, PDAs, desktops or any other product from either HP or any other company for that matter.
Whether you are into HP laptops, HP desktops or any other kind of computer, the internet is going to be important and ultimately your ability to properly configure your internet safety settings is going to play a big role in how safe you are when you are surfing the web.
The first thing that you ultimately will need to know about it is how to access those safety settings in the first place. In the most recent version of internet explorer and in several different versions available before it, you can find the safety options by clicking on the tools menu and then selecting internet options. You will be taken to the internet options dialogue box which has a number of tabs; general, security, privacy, content, connections, programs and advanced.
The general, connections, programs and advanced tabs are not horrendously important to the business of configuring your internet safety settings, so we can ignore them for now and leave the explanation of those tabs to another article.
The security tab has four specific zones that you can view; internet, intranet, trusted sites and restricted sites. Now, each one of these zones has a general safety level of either low, medium or high. The internet defaults to having medium security along with trusted sites as well. The local intranet has a lower security and the restricted sites have higher security. The different security levels basically just indicate the types of services that will be let through by the security settings for each specific website that you visit.
Privacy is very similar to security, but rather than blocking things like downloads and pop-ups, what it tends to do more is regulate cookies. Cookies are small programs that are installed onto your computer by most websites that you visit. Now, in a lot of cases, cookies are simply just programs that store information for you so that you don’t have to re-enter it or re-select it the next time you visit the site. However, some cookies can be harmful and the higher you set the privacy rating, the more likely it is that those harmful cookies will be caught.
Finally, the content section simply just allows you to block certain content from appearing in the browser. It’s not so much a matter of internet safety as it is a matter of convenience.
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