4 Tips for Online Shopping

E-commerce site started back in the Internet industry bergeliat Indonesia. This service can be very easy, because the user is more practical to shop. But on the other hand, there are threats that haunt instigators of this service.

Consider the humble four short tips from eHow Tekertin.com, Tuesday (24/05/2011):

1. Verification
When he wants to do transactions on shopping sites, one thing must be ensured first is the legitimacy and reputation of the site. Do not necessarily fascinated by the lure of low prices of a site or blog middle of nowhere.

This is usually a trick to cyber criminals. On its website, they exhibit a variety of goods at a price very lopsided. Users also are interested in and then transfer the payment. But unlucky, goods that dream did not come and the money was already flying.

To determine the credibility of a site, it's worth doing a small investigation on search engines. See, if there are references about the site. This could be one consideration.

2. Website Security
When the site has been ascertained by the 'original', the next step is to ensure the security of your transaction system. Some simple ways to ensure this is by checking the URL of the site. For a more secure site, the URL used usually use the prefix 'https'. While the usual sites use the prefix 'http'.

Well, the site with no prefix letter 's' (from the word 'https') is what should be wary if you want to do online transactions on the site. For their security system is less reliable.

Then, can also check the existence of the picture 'padlock' in the URL area or at the bottom right of the page transaction. The bottom line If there's no padlock, the site is relatively more secure. Last is the existence of such a security certification from a third party. One of them like 'Cybertrust Secured websites'.

Three security standards are actually being run by the banks in operating their e-banking site.

3. Security Software
Internet browser that is now present also been increasingly improved warning system. So when the user is not aware of having to visit malicious sites that want to take action phishing (theft of information), then the browser will automatically issue a warning sign.

It would be nice if on a shared computer is also installed additional security application that provides a firewall and filters to block actions that want to attack your computer.

4. Personal Data
Do not just spit the data-nan sensitive personal data on the internet. These include a phone number, home address, credit card numbers, social security number, and other privacy data.

Simple things that sometimes forgotten is to let the username, password and personal data stored on the computer, for reasons I'll efficient. This will be very dangerous if we do it on a computer that is shared.

So beware!