Synopses & Reviews
You know you're in trouble when...
- Your family and friends know everything you're doing on your computer!
- Someone is impersonating you during an instant messaging session.
- Sudden dropouts and lag occur during online game play.
- Your computer crashes unexpectedly and for no apparent reason.
- Mysterious pop-up windows appear at strange times.
This is a book about computer security and privacy, written especially for the many people who, just like you, are taking advantage of all the Internet has to offer. It goes beyond the "beware the dangers of chat room" warnings you're already aware of and tells you not only how to protect your computer form the latest invasions of viruses, worms, and Trojans, but also how to fight back and actually do something about them.
You know you're safe when...
- You know how anitvirus tools and firewalls actually workand how they can fail.
- You play online games without leaving your system open to attack.
- You can surf the Web and shop without leaving any traces to follow.
- You can clean viruses off a system and even get paid for it!
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Always Use Protection: A Teen's Guide to Safe Computing contains the most important things every teen needs to know about computer security. Not just the usual information about protecting teens online, but the equally important information on protecting computers from viruses and preventing identity theft (which teens surprisingly suffer from as well).
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Consider this true scenario: Two teenagers are both hit by some very nasty, damaging computer viruses. One was a virus that took down his Windows desktop at random times. The other was a trojan, with a hacker at the other end trying to blackmail him for game CD keys. Neither of the teens had up to date anti-virus software. Only one had a firewall.
Fact: Teenagers often suffer numerous other problems - from corrupt systems that need to be restored, to having E-mail accounts stolen, to being impersonated on instant message chats.
Security experts know that home users are the most vulnerable to viruses. In fact, many home users are teenagers. They often have the best computer (for games), and spend the most time on the Web. And while the news media and parents have done a decent job of warning teenagers of the risks of strangers in public chat rooms, they ve done virtually nothing to teach teens other aspects of computer security.
Always Use Protection: A Teen s Guide to Safe Computing contains the most important things every teen needs to know about computer security. Not just the usual information about protecting teens online, but the equally important information on protecting computers from viruses and preventing identity theft (which teens surprisingly suffer from as well). "
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Security experts know that home users are the most vulnerable to viruses. In fact, many home users are teenagers. They often have the best computer (for games), and spend the most time on the Web. And while the news media and parents have done a decent job of warning teenagers of the risks of strangers in public chat rooms, they've done virtually nothing to teach teens other aspects of computer security.
Always Use Protection: A Teen's Guide to Safe Computing contains the most important things every teen needs to know about computer security. Not just the usual information about protecting teens online, but the equally important information on protecting computers from viruses and preventing identity theft (which teens surprisingly suffer from as well).
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Containing the most important things every teen needs to know about computer security, this book features not just the usual information about guarding users online, but the equally important information on protecting computers from viruses and preventing identity theft.
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This is a book about computer security and privacy, written especially for the many people who, just like you, are taking advantage of all the Internet has to offer. It goes beyond the beware the dangers of chat room warnings you're already aware of and tells you not only how to protect your computer form the latest invasions of viruses, worms, and Trojans, but also how to fight back and actually do something about them. You Know You're Safe When... You know how anitvirus tools and firewalls actually work&emdash;and how they can fail. You play online games without leaving your system open to attack. You can surf the Web and shop without leaving any traces to follow. You can clean viruses off a system&emdash;and even get paid for it
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Parents with computer active teens: check out this review
Synopsis
Table of Contents Gremlins in Your MachineWhen Software Attacks: All About VirusesFrom Sneaks to Slammers: How Viruses Get on Your SystemThe Built-in Doctor: Antivirus ProgramsGuardians at the Gate: FirewallsLocking Up, Part 1: Software UpdatesLocking Up, Part 2: System and Application ConfigurationBackups: The Most Important Thing You'll Probably Never DoWhat to Do When You've Been HitWhen They Think It's You, But It Isn't: Identity TheftPasswords: Your Key to the InternetThe Traces You Leave Behind: What Your Machine Says About YouEvery Move You Make, They'll Be Watching YouChat Rooms, Public and PrivateScams
About the Author
Daniel Appleman is the president of Desaware Inc., a developer of add-on products and components for Microsoft Visual Studio, including SpyWorks, StateCoder and the NT Service Toolkit for .NET languages and VB6. He is a co-founder of Apress, a publishing company specializing in high quality professional level books for computer programmers and Information Technology professionals. He is the author of numerous books including Moving to VB.NET: Strategies, Concepts and Code, How Computer Programming Works, and Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, and he is the author of a series of ebooks on .NET related topics.