Anyone who is exposed to the World Wide Web is well known that the world is in principle based on the Internet in different ways, or pay our bills online, to organize our accounts online, or even a life from the Internet. Those who used the ruse that new phenomena “Internet thing” go online these days and it does not matter the age. For us a call on the Internet, there is a growing concern about online security while we are connected. People talk about firewalls, viruses, “evil twin” attacks and a variety of other unfamiliar terminology that some of us have only one idea that, for our security, but also online.

Important information such as your IP address that we have online without protection can be obtained easily by unscrupulous people and used to make our lives a nightmare. It is very important for us to understand that the footprints we leave behind when visiting a website a link to your online identity.

Here are some steps you can take your online privacy.

• When you visit a website, you must consider the privacy policy. More importantly, make sure that the site has a privacy policy, if not and you’re ready to offer their staff a number of details, forget it and log onto the site. This privacy policy indicates if and how this site collects information from you and what will be done with this information after being collected. We need verbiage reassures you that your personal data is protected and will not be sold to third parties. If you do not see a privacy policy, all information can be disseminated in the public domain, so be warned.

• Make sure you educate your children that it is dangerous to neglect of personal information over the Internet. Children can easily be misled into providing information such as your address, social security numbers or other important information about your family, which could lead to unscrupulous practices that occur to you. This can range from identity theft or credit card cloning.

• It is also very important to ensure that your children are trained from the threat of pedophiles using online social networking sites to groom children on the pretext that they are the same age. I want to stress the responsibility of parents to monitor all activities of your children while online. Enabling parental control filters in Windows, the risk that your children are exposed.

• Make sure all your passwords online is difficult for someone who they are, in fact, when you register for certain e-mail accounts with the supplier, the strength of your password. Make it a habit to update your password at least once a Monday

• Clear the cache of your system while browsing. Cache May be useful when browsing faster, but it can have a major impact on your privacy, because it is a browsing history and cookies offering May contain your passwords.

• Make sure the online forums you visit or use are safe and clearly indicate this fact.

• Always use an anti-virus and anti-spyware to find keyloggers, viruses, malware and spyware that hides on your computer in May. These malicious programs can collect and send your personal data to third parties. There are many anti-virus and anti-spyware free additions that can be downloaded from download sites known if you can not pay a yearly subscription.

• Common sense is one of the best online tools. If you think something is too good to be true, 99.9 per cent. The e-mails that you are a millionaire, and they need your bank account number for the transfer of funds, not the vain hope of making fortunes cloud your decision. Phishing is still alive.

• One of the best ways to protect your identity, using a VPN encrypts all data on your computer.