I’ll be demonstrating on Elementary OS with Firefox 61.ob14. I’m going to show you how to use the Avast extension in Firefox. With this handy addition, you’ll get a real-time indication of sites’ trustworthiness, based on crowdsourced web of trust ratings and known blacklists. That’s where the Avast Online Security extension for Firefox can help. If you use a platform that doesn’t require the use of antivirus and anti-malware, you should remember that phishing attacks can nab you, regardless of platform, if you’re not careful.
And although you might use a platform that, by design, requires the addition of antivirus and anti-malware, it would behoove you to seek a bit of additional help. Two issues every web browser user must consider are phishing and malware. The old adage “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” most certainly comes into play. But that doesn’t mean the browser is perfectly free from danger. As far as default browser security, you’d be hard-pressed to find one better than the latest iterations of Firefox. That’s right, once upon a time I’d have said, “If you’re looking to keep your computing experience 100% safe, you should be using Linux!” However, now that so many depend upon a web browser to get their work done, the idea of a secure platform goes only as far as the browser one uses. These days, we need every single bit of security we can find.
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