CANNOCK CHASE U3A

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY GROUP

Using Internet Browsers & Security

November 2014

InternetBrowsersRevC.ppt by Barry K James November 2014

INTERNET VIEWING, SEARCHING AND

SECURITY

1. How to view the Internet

2. Browsers available for Windows, Apple and Android

3. Using a Browser, links, using tabs, favourite

websites

4. Search Engines, rogue links

5. Banking security

6. Firewalls and Anti-Virus Software

7. Malware, Spyware and Adware cleaners

SOME AVAILABLE FREE BROWSERS

• To view the internet, a “browser” application is

required.

• A browser is a “user interface” to the internet.

• Windows PCs will have Internet Explorer (IE)

installed, but others can be downloaded and

used instead.

• Examples of other browsers available are:

BROWSER BASICS

� Address bar

� If you know the web address, type in here for IE:

� Search bar in IE

� Setting “Home” Page as Google or other in IE:

� Tools> Internet Options

� >Homepage

� Enter www.google.co.uk

�

� Google search box

Google

SEARCHING & SEARCH ENGINES

� Search Engines>> Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc

� Search Words>> How to…, and,

� Search Results>> Are links to other websites

� Look at the website address of each “hit”>>� Check link, company and country, (.co.uk)... beware .com can

be from anywhere.

� Watch out for search

websites posing the

answer but just want

to divert you to buy

something else.

GET LOST?........USE TABS

� Getting lost by continual clicking on links?

� Solution: Use the “tab” facility on browsers:

� Puffin tabs

� IE tabs

� When clicking on a search link:

� Press down the mouse wheel on link until it clicks.

Click on new tab. Original tab is preserved.

� Or, right mouse click on link, and select “Open in

new tab”. Click on new tab.�

� Opera tabs

INTERNET SECURITY

� Firewall to stop Malware downloads, (Windows etc)

� Banking and using credit card security

� Obtain from your bank website

� Always have Trusteer Rapport active (green)

� Download from your bank website

� Anti-Virus Software

FREE FIREWALLS

� Windows Firewall (Defender comes with PC)

� Outpost Firewall Free Edition

� Comodo Personal Firewall free

� Zone Alarm Free

MALWARE CLEANERS

� SuperAntiSpyWare, free

� Particularly good at cleaning viruses

� Scan and clean PC before banking or using credit

card.

� Ccleaner, free, cleans out rubbish

� MS Malware removal tool

� SpyBot, free

� MalwareBytes, free

FREE ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE FOR PC

� Microsoft Security Essentials - totally free

� Windows Defender - comes free with PC

� Avast 2014 - totally free

� Avira Antivirus - totally free

� Zone Alarm – totally free

� AVG Free - totally free

INTERNET SAVVY

� See Martin Lewis’s, Money Saving Expert…links

� http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/stop-

scams

� http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/latesttip/#defend

-yourself

� 15 tips on how to spot and avoid scams.

� Defend yourself with six questions.

� Link to Internet Scams & Questions summary doc

NEXT

� TEA ANYONE?

� ANY QUESTIONS?

� FUTURE SESSION IDEAS

FUTURE TOPICS

� November: Using an Internet Browser and security for banking online.

� December: No meeting

� January: A Famous Scientist study. Leonardo DaVinci.

� February: Energy. The practical truth about solar PV panels and power

facts.

� March: The Electric Car. The workings inside the engine and

battery of pure electric and hybrid cars.

�

� Envisaged further topics for 2015:

� Practical workshop session. Building a kit crystal set or equivalent.

� A famous scientist. Marconi and his transmitters.

� Climate change, true or false.

� Microsoft Word fundamentals of document creation.

� Microsoft Excel fundamentals of spreadsheet use.

� Microsoft PowerPoint fundamentals of creating a presentation.

� Amateur Weatherstations

FUTURE SESSION IDEAS

� The use and benefit of technology (PC’s,

Cameras/Photography, Tablets, Music MP3, etc)

� Scientific and Engineering achievements of interest.

� Famous Scientists or Engineers (Brunel, Marconi, Faraday)

� DVDs of Railways, Industrial Age, Air transport,

Road transport, Buildings (Eiffel, Bridges),

Waterways.

� Own interests, diagrams, photos.

� Group visits

� (JCB, Jaguar, Jodrell Bank, BBC, Transport museum,

Chasewater engine sheds, Space Centre, RAF Cosford?)

� Electronics practical projects and workshops

� (Soldering, Components, Raspberry Pie, Picaxe)

PICAXE PROJECTS

� Anyone look at the Picaxe or Revolution

Education websites?

� Any project ideas?

� How about 2 robot teams competing for the best

obstacle course program?

� How about making a weather station or kit?

� Any more suggestions?