Have you ever wondered how hackers exploit the carelessness of people and why every smart online user around you keeps cleaning up his browser?
The first place where cyber criminal gets your information
to misuse later is your Internet browser which saves a copy of everything you
do on the Internet. It can include:
The games you played
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The banking sites you visited
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The social pages you gone through
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The chat rooms you participated in
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The comments you left
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The weather forecast you checked upon
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The trading you did on the share market
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The forms you filled
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The subscription you have signed
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The objects you added on your shopping cart
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The videos you saw
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The songs you listened to
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The documents or brochure you downloaded
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The apps you installed
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The post you added to your blog
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And the list can go on and on
With so many of online footprints, an intelligent hacker
needs no more to intrude in your life if he sets his mind on it if you do not
choose to clean up your browser history.
What does this leave
you to ponder?
Yes, your online activities can be monitored very easily.
Companies with business prospects in mind do it all the time
by leaving cookies on the computer of the users who visited their site to know
their preferences and lure them to buying a product or service of their
interest.
Hackers, on the other hand, can let users click on any link
that leads to some fake site or download of file infested with malware that can
open backdoor for them to enter into the user’s system. Then they are free to
use the system as they wish, extracting the information they like and keep a
tab on the browsing history. There are other methods as well by which hacker
can gain access of your system without the backdoors.
You next step should
be?
The best tool to be prepared for such situation is routine
optimization, which also includes browser cleanup, be it Chrome, Mozilla,
Safari or others. Cleaning temporary internet files, cookies saved on the
system and cache files is very easy, but if you find it a hassle get a tool
like WinMD pro to get the task in just few clicks.
What more, such tools accomplish other important tasks
associated with the routine optimization of tool, in addition to the act of
cleaning the browser’s history!
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