Always Use Protection: A Teen's Guide to Safe Computing

 Description

You Know You're in Trouble When...

• Your family and friends know everything you're doing on yourcomputer!
• 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, writtenespecially for the many people who, just like you, are taking advantageof all the Internet has to offer. It goes beyond the "beware thedangers of chat room" warnings you're already aware of and tells younot only how to protect your computer form the latest invasions ofviruses, worms, and Trojans, but also how to fight back and actually dosomething about them.

You Know You're Safe When...

• You know how anitvirus tools and firewalls actually workand howthey can fail.
• You play online games without leaving your system open to attack.
• You can surf the Web and shop without leaving any traces tofollow.
• You can clean viruses off a systemand even get paid for it!

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 Author Profile

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 cofounder of Apress, a publishing company specializing in high-quality
professional level books for computer programmers and IT 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.

Binding	Media	Trim	Depth	Weight
Paperback	-	225x155