{"id":358,"date":"2008-11-16T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T00:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2008-11-18T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:10:34","slug":"two-really-good-reasons-to-use-firefox-as-your-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2008\/11\/two-really-good-reasons-to-use-firefox-as-your-web-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Two REALLY good reasons to use FireFox as your web browser&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"column1\">\n<div id=\"anti-malware\" class=\"feature\">\n<h3>I know I keep banging\u00c2\u00a0 on about this, but one of the easiest and cheapest ways to protect yourself from online scams and phishing is simple: Change your Web Browser!<\/h3>\n<p>Here are two really good reasons why you should use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/\">FireFox to surf the web<\/a> instead of the ubiquitous Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox includes strict anti-phishing and anti-malware measures and it&#8217;s open source so it has thousands of security experts around the globe working around the clock to keep you (and your personal information) safe.<\/p>\n<h4>1. Anti-Malware<\/h4>\n<p>Firefox 3 protects you from viruses, worms, trojan horses and spyware. If you accidentally access an attack site, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll receive a full-sized browser message as a warning. A continuously updated list of attack-sites tells us when to stop you from browsing, so there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing for you to update or maintain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/anti-malware.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-363\" title=\"anti-malware\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/anti-malware.jpg\" alt=\"Anti Malware Warning in FireFox\" width=\"281\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti Malware Warning in FireFox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>2. Anti-Phishing<\/h4>\n<p>Shop and do business safely on the Internet. Firefox gets a fresh update of web forgery sites 48 times in a day, so if you try to visit a fraudulent site that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretending to be a site you trust (like your bank), a browser message\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbig as life\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwill stop you.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I keep banging\u00c2\u00a0 on about this, but one of the easiest and cheapest ways to protect yourself from online scams and phishing is simple: Change your Web Browser! Here are two really good reasons why you should use FireFox to surf the web instead of the ubiquitous Internet Explorer. Firefox includes strict anti-phishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,15,12],"tags":[153,64,150,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}