Surfing the Internet Safely (for Journalists)

Andrew Lih

Foreign Correspondents Club of China

June 19, 2008

Presentation in PDF format

Important links:

AntiVirus

Commercial: Bitdefender, Kaspersky

Free: Avira AntiVir http://www.free-av.com/

AntiSpyware

Ad-aware Free - http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Spybot search destory - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

Hosts file manager

HostMan - http://www.abelhadigital.com

Firefox plugins

Ad Block Plus - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Flash block - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

NoScript - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722

McAfee Siteadvisor

MSIE: http://www.siteadvisor.com/

Firefox: http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ff.html