Firefox with Finjan Secure Browsing. Automatically scan a website, before you enter.
If you can reach this post, you might be using Firefox as your browser. It is no doubt, that Firefox give you a new browsing experience - faster, safer, convenient. And perhaps more fun.
You can change the look of your browser using by selecting different colorful themes. Subscribe to your favorite blog/rss feed by adding certain extension. Download multiple files using DownloadThenAll!. Download your favorite Youtube video using Unplug.
As the internet threat on the rise, perhaps it is better for us to look for extension that can avoid malicious software and websites. Actually, there are lots of such extension. Some of you might already try McAffee Site Advisor toolbar. Another famous extension is No Script. However, this time, I’ll expose something different.
Finjan Secure Browsing is perhaps a better alternative than McAffe Site Advisor. For one thing, this extension doesn’t create a new toolbar in your browser - I already install Google Toolbar. Having more than one toolbar is a bit mess to your browser. This extension will scan all websites/links that appears in search engine result. So, before you click in, you’ll recognize, which one is bad, an avoid it. This is different from McAffee Site Advisor. Site Advisor will detect malicious/bad websites according users review on that site. To download this extension, log on to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4892 .
Another one is Dr Web anti-virus link checker. This extension allows you to check any link or files before clicking or downloading any file. This is not a complete anti-virus protection - it is the additional to your anti-virus protection. Log on to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/938 to download this extension. Install, then restart your Firefox browser. Right-click on any link and a new option - scan with Dr Web will appear. You’ll find this extension useful. Before initiating any download, scan with Dr Web first.
If you’re using NOD32 anti-virus, or maybe Lavasoft Ad-Aware, you might want to add SafeDownload. It will prevent from threats of any downloaded files. Just after the download completed, this extension will automatically run and scan your downloads, using any anti-virus that is installed in your PC. However, it works well if you’re using NOD32 anti-virus. You need to configure the options, to make this extension works properly. To install this extension, simply log on to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3581 .
If you’re an active internet user, your browser would be the main source for virus, trojan and spyware. You should equip it with any of these add-ons to counter these threats.