Computer Tip of the Week

Recently Windows updated its service pack to SP2, for XP. For those users this was a great thing because it added the security center. With the security center it turned on Windows XP built in firewall, turned on Windows Automatic update and searched your OS for a virus scan.

In addition to all this windows updated Internet Explorer. It added a pop up blocker and added Active X controls, a source of how Hackers can get into your system and spread computer worms. However, these steps may not be enough. The US-CERT a division of Homeland Security warns that web users should have an alternate web browser. I recently added Fire Fox web browser to surf the web and I am greatly impressed.

The following are what I like the most.

1. Tabbed Browsing: if you haven’t tried it you will be impressed.
2. Web Extensions: this gives you add on such as Bug me not that allows you to
sign on to news web sites with out having a username and password.
3. AD Blocker: right click on an ad and click block this ad and away it goes.
4. Show in IE: if there is a page that requires IE (which there still are) you
can right click and scroll down to show in IE.


Overall, I like this browser very much you can check out the browser as well as the extensions a The Screen Savers and give it a try.