24. Safe Web Browsing

In This Chapter

Learn About Internet Threats and Risks to Your Privacy

Understand How to Defend Yourself Against Internet Threats

Learn About Windows Defender

Get Advice About Managing Your User IDs and Passwords

Image

For something so exciting, enormously helpful, always entertaining, and extremely valuable, the Internet can be a dangerous place. There’s risk at every corner of having your personal information stolen, of viruses spreading to your computer, of fake versions of your favorite websites appearing, designed to fool you into entering private information, and of software secretly loading itself on your computer ...

Get Windows® 8.1 Absolute Beginner’s Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.