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The Anti-virus Times recommends

• Unfortunately, no solution exists that can help determine whether what we see displayed on website pages is exactly what the site owner wants us to see. Alas, a website can be modified on the developer side (as a result of hacking, the presence of a vulnerability in the website’s engine, or due to a trivial leak of the passwords used to access it), as well as on the user side. Banking Trojans and phishers especially like to modify website pages. To minimise the risk, it is essential that you use anti-virus software that doesn’t allow malware to penetrate your computer.

  Dr.Web ShellGuard technology is an effective security tool for preventing website pages from being modified. It tracks attempts made to embed malicious code (exploits) in a browser’s running process and prevents malware or phishing modifications.

  Learn more about this technology on the page Technologies for analysing behaviour and terminating malicious processes—Dr.Web ShellGuard.

• Modern browsers let you disable JavaScript for all websites or (using special plugins) just some of them.

  Important! Disabling JavaScript may cause some websites to fail, so use this feature carefully.

  As an example, let’s consider the option to disable JavaScript for Mozilla Firefox. Unfortunately, in the latest versions the option to disable JavaScript has been removed from the browser’s settings page, so you need to take a more circuitous route:

  1. In the browser’s address bar, enter the command about:config.
  2. In the newly appeared window, click on “I’ll be careful; I promise!”.
  3. In the search box, enter javascript.enabled.
  4. Left-click on the Status column; select “Switch”; and in the column “Value”, change “false” to “true”.
  5. Reload the current browser page.