daivd@@ said:
how can i check what cache / web pages he has visited if he has deleted his history?
If you want to check the History, click "History" (*gasp!*) in the Menu Bar at the top
and click "Show in Sidebar" (or "History" in older versions of Firefox) at the bottom of the menu.
As for the Cache, well, you don't really "check the Cache."
The Cache is just where webpages and their content is temporarily stored on your computer,
so that if you load that page again,
it could just load the content from the Cache, instead of re-downloading it again.
(In Windows, it is called "Temporary Internet Files.")
daivd@@ said:
thanks again thats a great help, i have already spoken to him as he was concerned about this message that pooped up, he said it said something about quicktime
That's probably when you load a video in Firefox.
QuickTime is what plays the video inside Firefox.
I never had Firefox display anything about QuickTime though,
other than seeing the blue QuickTime logo right before the video loads.
About the ads...
You have to learn to distinguish ads from real alerts.
Usually, this is pretty easy.
Ads that mimic the appearance of a program or alert are usually required to be explicitly identified as an ad;
"ADVERTISEMENT" would usually be written at the top or the bottom, though it might be in small font.
Also, use common sense.
In Mac OS X,
the name of the program that you are currently "focused on" (the one you're using)
will always be displayed on the TOP LEFT corner.
If that window appeared, you click on the title bar of the window to focus on it.
If you see "Firefox" on the top right corner, then you know that it is a Firefox window.
Now, how would Firefox possibly know anything about pictures on your hard drive?
If it had the capability to scan the contents of your hard drive WITHOUT your permission and even IDENTIFY what kind of pictures you have (which is amazing in itself), this would be a massive privacy issue, and certainly, nobody would use Firefox.
Finally, do you even have some sort of program that can actually do this?
A program that scans your hard drive for pornographic pictures... I don't think such a program even exists.
So this one is obviously fake.
Another common ad that I've seen is, "Your computer could have viruses! Click here to scan!"
Now, anti-virus programs DO exist,
but do you have any installed?
If not, then obviously, once again, it's fake.
A little common sense goes a long way.
By the way, you said,
"he already uses firefox as his internet explorer"
The correct term is "web browser" (as in it's used to browse the web).
Internet Explorer is a web browser, made by Microsoft.
Firefox is another web browser, made by Mozilla.
etc.