PC Pro magazine show you how to make sure that your visit to an internet café doesn’t cost you more than your coffee. 

Lazy phishers don’t need to dream up elaborate social engineering scams to trick their marks into revealing valuable personal data. They don’t even need to invest in an off-the-shelf phishing kit to distribute and install Trojans to steal that data for them. Nope, all they need to do is pop into any internet café and try out one or two PCs, and the chances are good they’ll find one with a cache that’s brim-full and ready to auto-fill the webmail login form for them.

I’d usually recommend going the whole hog and using the Delete Browsing History tool (the first entry on the Tools menu), rather than just relying on logging out of the webmail system and closing the browser, which in 99% of cases is likely to be IE in such environments. And I mean delete the lot: temporary internet files, cookies, history, form data and passwords. Don’t forget, though, to still close down the browser after you’ve done all this, so as to clear those cookies that are still in memory from your current browsing session! The same applies with Firefox: just use the Tools | Clear Private Data option instead.

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