By André Faust
One of the biggest concern for those who do not know how browsing and the internet work.
There is a lot of bad information in regards to cookies, and the browser’s cache. Unfortunately, misinformation of this kind leads to some anxiety about cookies and other digital items downloaded into your computer’s cache.
With the early browsers, not with cookies but with JavaScript underhanded activities were common. Today’s modern browsers are programmed to recognize malicious JavaScript and won’t allow the script to run or to be downloaded. So what is loaded in the cache is really the least of a users worry.
Anything that is loaded in the cache whether its Cookies or other software is loaded to increase the efficiency of the browser. Disabling the cache will affect the performance of your browser.
Malware, viruses and other undesirable unwanted software are usually bundled with other software which you consent to install.
It is common that any software, addons, etc that are offered for free has other bundled software included. Even a reputable corporation like Adobe, when you install their flash plugin, and if you don’t check off any to install Norton security. The installation will install Norton security.
TOR is a browser that has been designed to help you browse anonymously if you use TOR and follow TOR’s instructions.
In Part I Anonymous Browsing The Experiment discusses in depth what information your computers gives out and what information it gives out. In addition, Part one discusses the strength and weakness of TOR and VPN’s Virtual Personal Networks.
The installation is pretty straight forward for what every the platform that you are using, Windows, Linux and Macs. It is just a matter of going to their site and follows the installation instructions.
André The Tech Guy 