Online and offline fraud happens within the spectrum of the digital devices used by individuals, this falls under both online and offline devices such as smartphones, mobile phones and computers or even laptops.This devices use specific tools for their effective functioning especially when accessing online platforms like social media and identifying safe digital tools to navigate these spaces is a vital measure aganist fraud for instance; Any individual or user can have a strong online privacy and safety by combining three digital tools such as;
A vpn is a Virtual Private Network that establishes digital connection between your computer and a remote server owned by a VPN provider creating a point to point tunnel that encrypts your personal data. Anyone seeking for a safer, free and more secured online experience could benefit from installing VPN through;
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Open the google play store and find your chosen VPN providers app such as Norton, Kaspersky etc.
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Press the install button and wait for the installation to finish.
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Open the VPN app and sign in or login.
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Connect to the server and you are all set.
An antivirus software is designed to protect your device from any malware and spyware by scanning programs or files as they arrive to your device so as to determine if they are safe for example Norton 360,Kaspersky among others. Individuals or users can be able to access downloads through this procedures;
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Download antivirus application on a CD or even a USB drive.
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Unzip the file to access installation.
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Find a file named install.exe,setup.exe or something similar.
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Double click to start installation process.
It enables an users to search the internet while protecting your privacy. it involves no tracking for instance DuckDuckGo, Qwant and Start page.
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Agood suggestion starts with narrowing it down to two or three based on your needs.
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Reading the privacy policy for those brands(types of search engine)this will tell you how safe your data with information of whether or not the company sells customer data to third parties.
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You should also find out how the search engine generates revenue.
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One should also consider the accuracy of the search results, ease of use, whether they use cookies or not, how flexible the settings are.
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Finally whether you trust the organization.
Users need to create safe passwords for instance;
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Passwords that are long and have characters like numbers, comic signs and uppercase or even lowercase letters, no birthdays.
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Always check in security alerts from google to notify that its not you trying to access the email whenever need araises.
