Safe Surfing...
...is like Safe Sex. Take precautions and never have any unprotected contact with strangers.
One way to deal with the filthy, disgusting place the internet has become is to have two computers. One has all your flashy applications, photographs, music, movies, favourite games and important, private & personal files on it.
The other has a browser, a good anti-virus programme and a firewall. Nothing else. You connect that one to the internet for surfing.
Never connect your good machine to anything.
Every three months you do a reformat and clean install on the internet machine.
BTW. Remember what a nice friendly place the old internet was back in 1989? Everyone cooperated and we were all nice to each other. There no hackers, no flame wars. No porn. No scumbags. Especially no government control - we never needed no control.
Yeah, Right!
So, now we see where anarchy and freedom gets you, huh?