If you have Google Chrome and get a lot of pop-up advertisements in the lower right-hand corner of your screen, there’s a very good chance they are coming from websites. They are appearing because you gave them permission to show you “notifications”. Is an advertisement a notification? No. But some naughty websites are misusing that […]
If AT&T is your Internet Service Provider and you have your web browser go to att.my.yahoo.com when it starts up. Bad news. att.my.yahoo.com is gone. If you try to go there, you’ll get an error telling you the page was not found. Instead, you can use att.net or my.yahoo.com. Try each one to see which […]
A web browser is a program that is installed on your computer that lets you view websites. Here is a list of the more common web browser and our recommendation for each. Microsoft Internet Explorer – Not Recommended Comes with Windows. Slow. Antiquated. Vulnerable to attack. Microsoft is phasing IE out and replacing it with […]
Seems like a good portion of the email I have received lately are from companies informing me of privacy policy updates. There was a study in 2008 that determined it would take the average person 244 hours per year, about 40 minutes a day, to read all of the privacy policies for the websites they […]
There are different ways advertisements can be shown on a computer. When you are on a website, there may be advertisements embedded in the website. We call these banner ads. A website may also pop-up a separate window with an ad in it as well. This ad may pop-up on top of the main window […]
Chances are you have heard about Heartbleed in the news. There are a lot of unanswered questions, but the bottom line is, you need to take action right now. This problem only affects certain websites that use a certain security product called OpenSSL. If a website you have used is on the list of websites […]
In this article we are going to show you some tricks you can use when you are viewing websites. Search Current Web Page When you are on a web page and you are looking for something specific, you can use the find function in your web browser to search the currently displayed. For example, let’s […]
Ad-blocking software speeds up web surfing by blocking out those annoying ads, but more importantly, it helps protect your computer from infection. In this instance, we aren’t talking about pop-up ads. We are talking about banner advertisements embedded in websites. Your browser has the capability to block pop-up ads, but it doesn’t block banner ads. […]
A web browser is a program you use to view content on the World Wide Web. The browser that comes with Windows is Internet Explorer. But there are lots of free browsers you can download and use. Each has their strengths and weaknesses. In terms of market share, Internet Explorer is the most widely used […]
Your home page is the first web page that your web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Netscape, etc) goes to when you first open it. It can be any web page. If you have more than one web browser on your computer, each one can have a different home page. So how […]
