The browser is where you will apply for most jobs. It is also where the most convincing traps are, and they are designed to be clicked by someone in a hurry.
The address bar at the top is where you type a website you know, like nasi-ispani.co.za. Whatever is written there tells you where you actually are, and it is the one thing on the screen that cannot lie to you.
Tabs let you keep several pages open at once, which is useful when you have a job advert open and your CV in another tab. The back arrow returns to the previous page and undoes most wrong turns.
A page shows two big green Download buttons.
What happens: The biggest button on a page is very often an advert. It downloads something you did not want, and on a shared computer you cannot always undo that.
What happens: The real download is usually the plainer one. The address bar tells you which site you are actually on, and adverts often point somewhere else entirely.
How do I know a site is safe to type my details into?
Look for the padlock and check the address is spelled exactly right. Scam sites use near-misses like nasi-lspani or nasiispani-jobs. Read the address slowly, letter by letter, before entering anything personal.
A page opened that I did not ask for
Close that tab, do not click anything inside it, and never phone a number it shows you. Pop-ups claiming your computer has a virus are a scam, especially the ones with a support number. Closing the tab is always enough.
Before you move on
- Learn where the address bar is
- Read the address letter by letter before entering details
- Close unexpected pop-ups rather than clicking inside them
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