Tech Tips for Non-Tech People!
Original Air Date: Oct 11, 2019
Firefox Scripting Control Tool
The bad actors on the Internet will stop at nothing to exploit users and one of the most dangerous methods they use is malicious scripting.
Scripts, which were created to enhance our experience on the Internet have been hijacked by hackers to take advantage of people without them knowing what’s going on.
Instead of providing you with relevant content based on choices you make or have made in the past, they refocus the technology to silently attack your computer when you visit rigged websites.
Since the vast majority of scripts you’ll encounter are actually safe and helpful, controlling when and where they run is a way to keep the dangerous ones at bay.
A free tool available to users of the Firefox browser is the very popular NoScript add-on.
While it’s not for everyone, if you like pinpoint control over what each website you visit can run, this is a tool that lets you do that.
Valid scripts are important for much of the functionality of the web, so you will have to tinker with the tool to figure out which ones are trying to deliver ads and which ones are providing functionality.
This open source tool is free and will require you to learn how to use it, but if you want supreme protection from rogue scripts, checkout the details at: https://noscript.net
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