Surf Privacy

You can do many things to improve your surf privacy. Softwares and proxy servers are available, but you’d better start with some basic surf privacy behaviors.

Surf privacy consists in minimizing your profile and identity trail as you surf on the Internet. Every site you visit will record your machines unique Internet protocol number or ip address. Cookies can act as remote identifiers, and the values can be returned from within html web pages using e-mail or post commands to track your surf privacy. Any of the web pages that you download may contain either Active-x or Java applets both of which can be programmed to access the Windows System or your surf privacy registry. Embedded Gifs or Web-Bugs can record your presence and 'phone home' style components can talk surf privacy to some database.

Don't get lazy and use only one or two surf privacy passwords at multiple sites just because that's easier to remember. Stay away from real words, use a surf privacy combination of letters and numbers, and keep passwords at least six characters long. Don't use birth dates, names of children or pets, or simple sequences like XYZ123 unless you don’t care about surf privacy. Keep a record of your IDs and passwords, but NOT on your PC. Don't store your password to avoid entering it the next time you log on. And periodically change your passwords, seek surf privacy.
There are programs available to search for and remove phone home components, where web-bugs are concerned the use of a surf privacy Firewall, either Norton Personal Firewall or Zonealarm are good 1st choices here, and proxy and cookie cleaning on a regular basis will minimize any surf privacy problem here. A security site is working on a Web-Bug filter at present.