How to Surf Internet in Organized and Secure Way on Your Computer

This is hard to believe that you have never been affected by unwanted ads and pops-up while surfing Internet at your computer. It often happens that we need to do hard-disk clean-up regularly. Sometimes it is so bad that we don't find any other option except formatting the hard-disk, which sometimes leads to a huge loss of data. We can avoid all these hassles by following few simple tips and tricks.

Yet another difficult task to find the exact web site address we are looking for. This is very difficult to remember all web sites addresses we use everyday. Typing mistake is very common mistake we do while typing the website addresses in Internet Explorer address bar. Let's discuss how we can maximize our Internet utilization. Invest less time and get more information.

Know the good and bad sites - There are several sites which are full of advertisements and spy activities. Try to make yourself know about them. If you come across any such site eventually, write it down to some place and come out from that site as quickly as possible. These sites sometimes want to install adware and spyware software in your computer. Don't click on any ad or don't say YES to any message or dialog box appears for this kind of sites. These sites are always distinguishable from others by its look and feel. Try to avoid the site with lot of pop-ups and ads. If you can follow this advice it will reduce the chances of damaging your computer.

Install anti-adware and anti-spyware softwares - There are several free and good softwares available to remove adwares and spywares from your computer. The easiest way to learn about those is to go to cnet.com and click on download tab and then search the software you need. Cnet.com also has filters which will help you to choose the correct thing for your computer. The most popular spyware and adware removers are HijackThis by Trend Micro, Spy Cleaner Gold, Ad-Aware SE Personal etc. I found HijackThis is very good, but need little knowledge about computer. Once you run the HijackThis it will list down all processes currently running at your system. You have to be very careful because 90 percent of these processes are system processes. Do a walkthrough of this list and see what unwanted process is running behind the screen. If you are not sure about any process do a search on net to find out the information about that process. If that doesn't give you much information it is better not to delete that process. Sometimes it is easy to distinguish the unwanted process and by deleting them you can safe your computer.

Pop-up Blocker - Generally windows XP comes with built-in pop-up blockers. But sometimes in for Windows XP also we face problem for pop-ups. It is better to install pop-up blocker software. There are lots of free pop-up blockers available in market; almost everything is more or less same. You can choose any one among them. These are the good pop-up blockers currently available in market in free - Perfect PopUp Killer, Ad Arrest IE Popup Killer, Ultra Ad Killer, AdFree etc. Sometimes you may need to allow some pop-ups which are the result of your click and you want to see them. While this pop-up blocker is running at your system it may block those necessary pop-up windows also. In this case click on the link pressing control key (Ctrl) down.

Clean your Hard Disk Periodically - We need to clean all temporary folders, cookies, offline files and history regularly. It will help you to increase the performance of your computer. Either you can go manually and delete these files or there are few good softwares available in market which can do the work for you. Sometimes it is difficult for us to find out all unnecessary files and folders needs to be deleted. My recommendation is CCleaner. This is very good software which will help you to clean your computer. Download and install this software and run that periodically. First it will analyze your computer for all unwanted files and folder and then will suggest you to delete them. You have option to follow its complete recommendation, otherwise you can select few things what you feel necessary to delete.

Organize Your Favorite Folder - This is a very good habit to organize and save the website addresses within your favorite folder. You can create several folders under the favorite tab. Click on 'Organize Favorites' within the 'Favorite' tab on IE browser to create new folder, rename the folders and move the link in between folders. You may want to create folders for your personal banking service sites, music sites, utilities sites, movie sites etc. That way you can better organize your Internet surfing and don't need to hunt for the site addresses you are looking for. Folder makes your search easy for the sites.