How to safely surf the internet in public places like cybercafes using private browsing?

Many a times we do Internet banking, online shopping and some times it may happen that we have to urgently transfer some money to someone urgently and a public cybercafe is the only way you can access your account what do you do?

Well it is never recommended to go in cybercafe but in case you have no other option follow these steps:

1. Make sure you are using IE or Mozilla.
2. Press CTRL + SHIFT + P to enable private browsing.
3. This enables Private Browsing session once that is done you can do your stuff.

Private browsing is a mechanism in which the browser prevents storing data about your browsing session. This may includes cookies, temporary Internet files, history, and other data.


Your history such as user names and passwords are not stored in cookies and if they are not stored at all then they cannot be used by some program to decode your user name and password.

This is also applicable when you are doing social networking on Orkut or Facebook or anywhere else or any application which involves logging in.

Most latest browser support Private browsing mechanism so make full use of it.