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Protecting Your PC (General Computing Series)

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I was forced to buy this book for a college course. This book is a good easy read for beginners not a college level computer course. For anyone interested in protecting themselves online it's a good place to start

this was a required book for a class I just finished. When I started encountering problems with my work computer, I found myself referencing this book to try to troubleshoot the problem, worked like a charm. Will hold onto it, as it may prove useful in the future.

Using a computer that's connected to the Internet seems to be to be a lot like living in the old west must have been. That is rather like a law of the jungle with the Sheriff out of town a lot.
There are people out there who would like to send your computer troublesome software like viruses, spyware, adware, all kinds of malware. For some reason they seem to think that just your being there is an open invitation for them to try to compromise your system.

The author is a principle software engineer for Symantec, the company that produces the Norton security software. In this book he describes the various types of attacks you are likely to get and tells you how to protect yourself from virtually all types. He includes with the book a trial version of Norton's Internet Secutiry 2006 and tells you how to get the best out of it.

The interesting thing about computer security is that if it is working perfectly you never know that its there. You simply use your computer without interruption, without popups, without mysterious -- well, you get the picture.