If you've ever suffered from malicious third party scripts wreaking havoc with your computer, it's likely that you've looked in to the safety issues of browsing online with as much protection as possible. Well, you may wish to drop by Noscript.net, a brilliant website which offers a Firefox extension to manage and control the access that websites have to your local system when executing potentially dangerous scripts.
First of all, you will need to have a browser of Mozilla origin installed. This means Firefox, Flock or Seamonkey. You will not be able to use the noscript.net software with any of the other popular browsers (Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome...)
The principle of the Noscript.net plugin that sets it apart from the rest is that it works on a whitelisting basis. Most anti-virus suites work on the opposite logic, whereby only scripts that are located on blacklisted websites will be removed from the execution line. By having a whitelisting system, you can ensure that only the websites that you actually trust are allowed to execute scripts.
Adding a website to your trust list is easy and will only take a matter of moments. You can select your exact preferences. It's possible to control settings for Javascript, Java and any kind of plugin execution.
The Noscript.net plugin is accessible in the bottom corner of the browser. A simple right click will open up options for the currently viewed website. From here you can choose whether to allow or deny access in terms of the scripting capabilities across that particular site. The one downside to such a whitelisting method is that in the time that follows your installation of the plugin, you can expect to be interacting with the plugin for as long as it takes to enable scripting privileges on the sites that you already trust.
It only takes one click per type, but if you're a prolific user of the Internet and enjoy surfing a wide variety of sites, it's likely that you could have your patience tested by having to loosen security for every single site that you already enjoy browsing. This, however, is only a temporary measure.
Once you've enabled access where necessary, you'll find that your Internet security increases tenfold. So many anti-virus packages rely on a compromise now, fix later strategy.
With the latest version of the plugin, you can go one step further and control even the HTTPS settings from within the Noscript.net add-on. That means it's possible to force the use of HTTPS on websites where you're particularly concerned for your data protection. You can specify that even your whitelisted websites require HTTPS where proxy connections are concerned, as this eliminates the threat of spoofing and advanced hacker attacks.
There's no question that Noscript.net is a brilliant little add-on for those of us who are security minded first. The Internet is developing at a rapid rate and while the large majority of websites are good doing entities that seek only to improve our browsing experience, there will always be some individuals who seek to exploit the existing Internet security loopholes. You can take a big step towards complete protection by downloading the Noscript.net plugin for safe browsing.
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