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Many of you might be using your own personal computer with a paid internet connection. But some of us use public places like libraries, internet cafes to surf through the internet. As these places are public, there are certain things to consider when you surf the internet. I will describe them in this post.

The most important thing is confidentiality of your passwords. You will enter your passwords to various forms like email login, internet banking login, credit card login, PayPal login etc. you must not click YES when asked to remember the passwords by the web browser. Remember, the internet is not a safe place. There are many crooks waiting for your mistakes to benefit from them. Therefore never let the web browser to save your passwords.

Sometimes you might download confidential data and carry them with an external storage like a pen drive or an external hard drive. You must delete all the data stored in the computer before you leave the public internet place. Otherwise someone might benefit from them and it will harm your life. Don’t just send them to the “Recycle Bin”. Delete them from the Recycle Bin also.

You must also clear the cache, authenticated sessions, browsing history, cookies and saved passwords if there are any, of the web browser. Otherwise you might get into trouble as others can use these for their purposes which will harm your personality and living.

I hope that above mentioned things will keep you out of the troubles in the internet and your life. You must follow those when you use a public internet access place.