how to view a website without allowing it to make changes
Sometimes when I try to go to website my F-secure blocks the site I click allow anyway I am then asked if i want to allow the website to make changes to my computer *** (ALARMS GOING IN MY HEAD) I click no.. .as I just want to view the site
back to a loop that gets me nowhere
What is worrying is that obviously some sites do want to make changes to my computer... I Would Never Allow THAT and some times I want to view the site..but not allow changes
SO How do I view a website (or indeed all) without allowing changes to be made to my computer?
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You could consider to disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 10 :
https://www.technipages.com/windows-enable-disable-user-account-control-uac
Check that Firefox isn't set to run as Administrator.
You can open the Properties of the Firefox desktop shortcut via the right-click context menu and check the "Compatibility" tab.
Make sure all items are deselected in the "Compatibility" tab of the Properties window.
- Privilege Level: "Run this program as Administrator" should not be selected
- "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" should not be selected
Also check the Properties of the firefox.exe program in the Firefox program folder.
My apologies
I did get to the compatability tab which offered me
Run compatability troubleshooter wahtever that is nothing else is selected in this box.
I wil play around with trying to find the Properties of the Firefox programme folder. But I'm not hopeful.
Enigma said
You could consider to disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 10 : https://www.technipages.com/windows-enable-disable-user-account-control-uac
I perhaps misunderstand . I f I disable this feature then F-secure will not inform me when sites attempt to do things to my computer.... what I want F-secure to do is let me view sites and not allow anything to affect my computer in any way.
UAC is Microsoft. Though F-Secure may use that. This maybe a issue you should be posting in their forum for better security feedback. https://community.f-secure.com/t5/Help-Forums/ct-p/help-forums
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.
All I want to do is view web pages I want to do this in a safe and secure manner so I do not want these web pages to access MY COMPUTER and I DO NOT want them to make any changes to my computer.
How do I do this please BTW I am not a computer tech or I would not be asking these questions sop please bear this in mind if you are kind enough to offer me a solution for safe browsing.
BTW
To the right side of the dialogue boxes like this one there is a little box which says DID THIS REPLY SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM then underneath that is a little box that says Solved the problem.... I do not know why this is as the problem has most certainly not been solved.
The long and short of it is if F-Secure blocks it there is always another site like it that you will not have a issue with.
So you do what you wish to do, go or not go, do what F-Secure Suggests or not. Just always be prepared that F-Secure will not catch or Identify issues and has probably missed stuff already.
Please use more than 1 scanner as each uses diff tech : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware Save your Report and google each before deleting anything as do not want to delete something you need, If need help : https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/9573-im-infected-what-do-i-do-now/ Post in only 1 forum, then wait.
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.