Internet Security

For my first tutorial I choose to learn about sandboxie. I had no idea that this even existed, but I would definitely tell people that it is free and easy to download and that it allows you to surf the Internet with complete security. It doesn’t allow anything to reach your hard drive. This seems so easy and manageable that I’m surprised more people don’t know about it and use it. My only question was if you did need to download something from the Internet would you have to turn off sandboxie? Or could you download it and retrieve it from sandboxie? Either way it seems like a great resource.

Next I looked at blocking Spam on my Gmail account. I know how to mark something as spam, but what I didn’t know was that I could actually filter out certain sites or domains and just have them automatically deleted. This is very helpful for me as I get hundreds of spam a day that fill up my spam box. If I can set them to automatically delete then it will be easier to look through the spam from time to time in case something isn’t spam. I will definitely be sharing that with others! Besides this, nothing else really surprised me.

Lastly I learned about google search preferences. I was aware that you could monitor how sexually explicit the results were, but it had been awhile since I was in the preferences section and didn’t remember all of the other choices I had control over. I think this is a great tidbit to know for families and schools because children and students would have no idea that the sexual images were being blocked and that they are only seeing what is appropriate. It is monitoring without obviously inhibiting them (which once they reach a certain age they are always annoyed by any parental protection or the word no).