Much like when we invest in the stock market (lol). . There is some truth in this if you can imagine that you have placed £10,000 in shares for say Woolworths. Well we are all too aware of what happened there. You will get reports of the current price of your shares with the option to buy and sell at the desired price. The problem is that money is not in your bank account, for all you know it is well gone.What i am trying today is that unless you use a trusted site/ method of payment then who is to know where exactly you have just sent your money? There are options to cover yourself against unexpected loss of funds. One of these is by using sites such as paypal. This is a secure payment facility. So just as you would use an open id to access several various social websites , pay pal will allow you to pay in the same manner. Your details are secure in the pay-pal database, which allows them to make a payment on your behalf with no need to reveal your details to the retailer. This can also work the other way round by purchasing a sellers account. These will normally be used for popular auction sites such as ebay.
They allow you to receive payments again
with the consumer none the wiser in
regards to your personal bank details.
You could also opt for a relatively new idea
in the form of a pre paid debit card.
These will work just like your pay as you go phone. You are given an account along with a card. This will allow yo u to pay via sites that require you to
use a credit card or visa type pament method. Then you just pop into the local 
distributor to buy a top up. You may also chose to do this overthe phone or via the net. These are amazingly useful as they cost little if not nothing to get hold of and will only charge a very small sum for use of the cards if any at all.
They are very handy to keep as an emergency or to purchase for your children in case they should ever find themselves in an unexpected situation. Such as they have lost their train fair or similar.
These cards give no information out to the retailer in regards to your bank account, you will obviously need to provide other relevant details.
Then should you still be concerned you have the option of taking up plans with places such as your own bank to protect you from loss and/ or identity theft. 
provide a brilliant service in I
ID Aware which monitors your credit and will automatically contact you if there any changes made to your current status. This allows you to catch those trying to take advantage before they leave you at a severe disadvantage. Most of the time your bank will automatically block any transaction which it considers unusual when compared to your normal spending habits. I am thankful that Lloyds did in fact do this to me. Even if it was perhaps inconvenient at the time. It was very comforting knowing that, should it of been a criminal attempting the transaction.. they wouldn’t of got very far.
Then there is internet banking
Again i would have to recommend lloyds tsb as their system is so user friendly and equally secure. Also when making a payment online you will be met with a verification screen from lloyds to provide extra security .
Other than that the best way to avoid this would be not to pay anything over the internet so no one has access to your details.
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Then there is possibility of your personal information such as your phone number, picture , full name and various other bits like your hobbies and interests lol.
My advice is if you are using a social network it is probably best to make sure your user name is not actually the same as your REAL NAME . If you are worried you will forget your user name your browser (most of them) have a facility for storing your information for specific sites along with your passwords. Failing this try my method which is good ole pen and paper. Or if you really want make a simple document in word or notepad and keep a record there. Then to avoid that being stolen just get a small 256mb or similar usb stick. That way it will be separate from your system , plus you can carry it with you so you have all the info available if you have to use a computer other than your own. Just make sure if you do , such as a library computer, when you enter your details make sure not to tick the REMEMBER ME box.
You can now use google to save all your browser setting via your g mail account, so that all your bookmarks are available wherever you may be. Or even download a browser onto a flash drive and carry it around so all your settings are available at the insertion of the drive into the computers usb socket.
Or you could also try
This could also come in rathr handy too…
Comodo AntiSpam 2.7.0.11
Keep your inbox free of junk mail – forever
And why not have a go at encrypting your mail so that if someone does intercept it they can read it anyway hey? Comodo SecureEmail 2.5.0.27 (64-bit) Comodo SecureEmail 2.5.0.27 (32-bit) Or just plain ole’ fashioned Microsoft outlook program which will probably already be installed on your system. Desktop clients ome with the added bonus of being able to hold all your rss feeds also.I must say i prefer thunder bird. Then if you are really paranoid you can use the option of private browsing available on internet explorer Firefox along with a few others . Then there is also the option of picking up a simple ip mask software readily available as freeware , shareware and open source. ********************* On the other hand should you want Maintain an online reputation ……. ****************************************************
My personal favorite allowing you
to build your own expose by adding links
, contacts and notes to your profile
. People can drop by and rate
you as credible and important to
improve your yansi rank.
Ok sorry bit of an ego trip there – shouldn’t happen again
(for a while lol)
!23automatically collects info without need for 
input, but to increase your
reputation try signing up to your name.
Whoozy
Whoozy is another facility that allows you
to save your results in various searches
to create a portfolio of your contributions
in cyberspace.
Social mention is a real-time search engine
along with analytic site. It will also inform you
of
every time your chosen topic is mentioned.
Google alerts sends any results relating
to your set phrases / name straight to your in-box.
There are of course countless more sites ready and waiting to do this for you also. If you keep a blog on word press you have the option to integrate your blogs across various networks, the same in many other site suites.
AND DON’T JUST STICK WITH GOOGLE Analytics!
There are many other places that will keep an eye on your site for you i find that Yahoos site explorer is better. Then you can try Bing and various others. However on word press you are given the option to insert a meta identifying code into your blog for these 3.
And while you do all that be sure to pick up a
Creative Commons
To protect yourself from plagiarism
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Domains
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Eah time a domain is registerd then the details are entered into a database which is searchable for free to everyone you can find this at
This offers you the choice of searching by domain name, dns or via the web and will also tell you your own ip underthe search box.
This is basically designed for safetey should you or for examplee your children not be aware who it is you are talking to . These types of searches can also assist police in catching an offender.
Mozilla also offer this as a service for your browser
in the form of a plug-in which you can find here
Mycroft Project
Most sites use cookies, these are what enables them toremember your log on information etc. So if you use your internet options button and choose to turn them off you will be able to keep yourself slightly more secure.
It may also be a good idea to
wipe your internet cache with your browsing history
you can do this via the disk cleanup
that you can find under accessories on your start menu
Nominet
Click on the image below to download nominets domain name report 09
and take a look through trends and
the trust awareness section
domain_name_industry_report2009 courtesy of nominet
These guys below will help you to wipe
confidential information from
your computer, in 64bit or 34bit versions.
These are only trial products though so you will have to pay after the initial trial is over.
Laplink SafeErase Professional 4.1.153 (64-bit)
Laplink SafeErase Professional 4.1.153 (32-bit)
Computer are designed to keep a record of all the things you create/ download onto them and all the places you have visited on the net. You will find that even after a format that your files are still on your computer some may argue that they will be there forever others that they can be removed with some sort of process including magnets. However , at the end of the day there are many criminals such as murderers and sex offender who are caught due to their ignorance about this. If you have nothing on your computer that is illegal then you really have no need to worry. Those who do well, that is why they are constructed like this to help keep others protected from people like yourselves.
When we consider the fact that the authorities have access to our details it seems a bit like we have drifted into the big brother house.
Although i would be more than happy to see my information being looked at if this means
it saves at least one child from a pedophile or stops one more rape by catching the offender prior to committing the crime!
Like i said if you are doing nothing wrong you should really have no reason to worry about this.
Do not get me wrong, you still need to be on the look out for the rather more malicious ones amongst us. We , i should think, would rather not have a thousand pounds taken from our account. Most of the time you will find that this gets returned to you but the stress of the situation is not taken back at the same time.
So if you do no wish people to have access to your details then just
DO NOT MAKE THEM AVAILABLE IN THEM
FIRST PLACE
There are many organizations out there working to stop all types of cyber crime and sharing of peoples details and other rather more horrid things such as
THE INTERNET WATCH FOUNDATION
These people ask for your cooperation in their attempts to remove the far from good content from the web….
This last section you may have seen else where on the net (cough cough) Although as i wasnt actually paid Re-imbursed for my contributions in any way shape or form i see no problem in it being used to give more people a better idea as to the dangers faced by children on the internet.
Here is the document should you wish to help spread awareness
Child safety on the Internet
Please feel free to download and pass around
it would be nice if
you could mention who wrote it
but if not as long as it helps with the cause
thats fine by me
Child safety and the Internet
Well i think you see my point. Well you see a title but do you see me? That’s the whole problem ! The internet was created to give us a way to access well… just about anything . the only problem being just about anyone can do so. The internet allows us to order our shopping, that xmas pressie you totally forgot about or now even a pizza. However we did not order risk, nor did we request danger especially in regards to our children. Sadly this world is full of people who set out to hurt one another and the cyber world reflects this all to often. The internet is an amazing portal for children to access educational material, with the ability to access online encyclopedias, e Books and slightly more appealing ways of learning such as; educational games. Without the internet, we can only do this by visiting libraries, museums and other such outings. Where as the internet has all this and more at the click of a mouse. Although there is also social media, chat rooms and other forms of communication such as instant messaging. When a child visits friends, they know they are who they say they are as it is clearly visible. The internet however, does not offer the same. We can try to prevent our children from speaking to people who are not who they claim to be but as of yet are unable to stop this completely. We can put in place parental controls to stop them accessing sites that are deemed unsuitable but, with so many websites popping up every day , we cannot catch all of them in a sufficient amount of time to stop our children finding them. We also, unless we monitor our children constantly whilst on the net, are unable to, stop them from meeting people via social networking. Unfortunately children just as many adults, are unable to spot when something is wrong, sex offenders and other unsavory characters take advantage of this. We can try to introduce measures to make sure they are unsuccessful in whatever it is they are trying to do although, there is nothing to stop these people from creating fake profiles and adapting their date of birth , avatar etc to resemble that of a child. Each time we put new barriers in place someone soon after finds away around these. People such as con men, bullies, rapists, pedophiles, even murderers are using the internet for very different reason as to what it was intended for. If we do spot behavior which seems ‘not quite right’ we can inform authorities, stop our children from using the particular site and various other things. We as adults are able to access websites and organizations that will reveal a fair bit more information. We can conduct checks online, of email addresses, internet service providers and various other things. We are even able to find out real identities and locations of the person we suspect is not who they say they are. Although we are limited by technology that allows you to disguise this such as net masks, even routers and modems can be adjusted, with the correct knowledge, to hide our identities. Then to add to this, there are people using the internet who are using it to share indecent images of children. We are also aware of many different types of media that is both in the eyes of morals and the law wrong, very wrong indeed. The people who participate in criminal activities do not do so without due care and precaution. These criminals firstly become knowledgeable in all the relevant areas to do these things with the smallest amount of risk. After all they do not want to be sent to prison or have their activities stopped. So these awful goings on are usually well hidden. The average internet user may never come across this type of material although, should you happen to delve deeper into the virtual world, either on purpose or by accident, there is a chance you will see things you really wish you hadn’t. To avoid this content being seen again, we must inform someone who can do something about it. I myself was slightly more than taken aback when i recently sat down to read a magazine. As we know many bits and bobs are normally shoved inside to annoy you. This however, made me feel slightly uncomfortable. This was in fact the main aim of the particular advert. The picture accompanying this article well, i think should strike you in the same fashion. This has been produced by the internet watch foundation, in hopes of making you stop and realize that things go on the internet that are far from acceptable. This must be the most effective and simple piece of awareness material i have ever seen. The sentence “if this makes you feel uncomfortable , imagine how she feels” describes the situation perfectly. Even as adults we are not prone to being targeted in such a way. We have seen people raped and murdered after going to meet someone they believe to be some one else. If we are susceptible to this , imagine how vulnerable or children are! The internet watch foundation provides us with a place to tell someone if we come across any indecent behavior on the internet. The organization will then work to remove this and do all within their power to stop this content being viewed by anyone else, and work towards prosecuting the offenders. And I’M Spent _ ( Austin powers) oh just before i go ……… a friend thought you would like to know this….
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