Protect Your Computer from Your Parents
You, like anyone, needs privacy, especially in your computer. But unfortunately, your computer is the one that is most attacked. How can you protect it from your parents, roommate, sibling(s), or anyone.
This is key. You'll want a distinct password. You'd be surprised how many people have their username as their password. So make the password a secret obsession you have, or something from your childhood or even a random object .
Here's what you do: go to your desktop. Right-click and make a compressed zipped folder. Name it Desktop Stuff or whatever you want. Put all of your desktop files except My Computer and Recycling Bin, into the file. Then go into the folder, and click file, add password. Add one, different from your username. It can be a simpler one, but not easy! if you are an advanced user, make an encrypted file container with FreeOTFE or truecrypt.
Go to My Documents, make a compressed zipped folder, named my documents, same thing, again different password.
One, set your History to 0 days to keep, by clicking Tools > Internet Options, in Internet Explorer. Also in Tools > Internet Options, clear your history every time after you use the Internet
You don't want friends to get into any of your online accounts, right? Click Tools > Internet Options, again and go to Content on the top of the box. Click AutoComplete, and then clear passwords, and clear forms, and then uncheck all the little boxes, so they don't save again.
Parents won't check it, and it's easy to clear everything but your favorites - Tools, Clear Private Data.
You can use Google Chrome Incognito feature for private internet browsing.Using this feature allows you to surf internet in a way that no history is saved in the browser.
For protection from password cracking programs such as Ophcrack, use Bitlocker. This will encrypt your data and make it much more difficult to hack into your account
This is key. You'll want a distinct password. You'd be surprised how many people have their username as their password. So make the password a secret obsession you have, or something from your childhood or even a random object .
Here's what you do: go to your desktop. Right-click and make a compressed zipped folder. Name it Desktop Stuff or whatever you want. Put all of your desktop files except My Computer and Recycling Bin, into the file. Then go into the folder, and click file, add password. Add one, different from your username. It can be a simpler one, but not easy! if you are an advanced user, make an encrypted file container with FreeOTFE or truecrypt.
Go to My Documents, make a compressed zipped folder, named my documents, same thing, again different password.
One, set your History to 0 days to keep, by clicking Tools > Internet Options, in Internet Explorer. Also in Tools > Internet Options, clear your history every time after you use the Internet
You don't want friends to get into any of your online accounts, right? Click Tools > Internet Options, again and go to Content on the top of the box. Click AutoComplete, and then clear passwords, and clear forms, and then uncheck all the little boxes, so they don't save again.
Parents won't check it, and it's easy to clear everything but your favorites - Tools, Clear Private Data.
You can use Google Chrome Incognito feature for private internet browsing.Using this feature allows you to surf internet in a way that no history is saved in the browser.
For protection from password cracking programs such as Ophcrack, use Bitlocker. This will encrypt your data and make it much more difficult to hack into your account
