Extension Guard - stop untrusted extensions from installing.Webcam Guard - choose who can access your webcam.Password Managers - log into websites faster.Stealth Mode - private browsing so you leave no trace.Anti-Phishing - blocks dangerous websites.Anti-Fingerprinting - mask your browser fingerprint.Adblock - stops ads from appearing for improved safety and browsing speed.CCleaner - clears cookies, and removes junk files.Here are the different features included in the package - and they’re all free. Most of these you can disable if you wish but for maximum protection, we recommend running all of the tools. It does this in a number of ways through its built-in features. This suite of tools was carefully designed to give you faster browsing speeds, complete privacy, and total security. There is a great ad-blocking tool that comes with CCleaner Browser. Perhaps you just didn’t realize it existed, which is quite common. If you’re not using ad-blocking software you should consider it. Not only will this boost your online privacy but it will also speed up your browsing. After all, since it’s difficult to tell whether an ad is real or not you need to rely on technology to help out here. The best way to avoid malicious ads from infecting your PC is by avoiding ads. What can you do about it? Fight back.passively and safely. This approach taken by cybercriminals isn’t going to go away but not all is doomed. Just add it to the growing list of online security threats! This tactic is far from new (the first reported incident was in 2007) but they are getting much more sophisticated. The purpose of malvertising is to get a user to download malware or lead them to a malicious server. These ads are fake (but convincing) and the practice is known as “malvertising” (get it, malware + advertising?!). However, the sad reality is that cybercriminals have found yet another way to reach the creating their own ads. We’d like to caveat that this isn’t the norm and most advertisers really just want to get their product or service out there. There is another aspect to online ads that makes them not only annoying but dangerous to your PC and privacy. Some advertisers even make it more difficult to close an ad by moving the “x” (close button) or whatever the method of doing so is, or making it so faint it’s like a game of Where’s Waldo (Where’s Wally for our British friends)! Just annoying or potentially dangerous? If you’re studying or working and need to access and reference a page you might just have to sit through all the ads and pop-ups, wasting valuable time. Sometimes it’s not possible to flee a site in annoyance though. Unable to deal with the overload, many people will leave these sites (or ‘bounce’ as it’s called in the marketing world) almost as soon as they enter. This is not an effective strategy to win customers and internet users over. Some sites have so many ads on them that a page won’t load properly, takes what feels like minutes (if you bother to wait around), or you can’t read the content because ads are attacking from the sides, popping up, and video ads just launch, occasionally crashing everything.
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