Over the past few years, a new class of software has emerged that's up to no good. it goes by many names: Spyware, adware, foistware, malware, eulaware, or even crapware. For simplicity we'll just call them all Spyware. There are also many PC surveillance tools that allow a user to monitor all kinds of activity on a computer, ranging from keystroke capture, snapshots, email logging, chat logging and just about everything else. These tools are oftern designed for parents, businesses and similar environments, but can be easily abused if they are installed on your computer without your knowledge. Spyware Reference & Study Guide was designed as a research guide not just for the techies, IT managers, or computer security experts, but for the beginner user. This book looks at the good and the bad of Spyware. CD Included: ZoneAlarm - Firewall Window Washer - File Shredding SpyBot - Anti-Spyware software Spector Pro -Commercial Spyware eBlaster - Commercial Spyware Computer Surveillance - PowerPoint Presentation Computer Counter Surveillance - PowerPoint Presentation Video - Video clip from the History channel Modern Marvels on Surveillance Technology.
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Gregory Evans, innovator, publishers, and industry leader has been recognized as an expert in computer security and hi-tech crimes. Mr. Evans is currently the founder of LIGATT Security and the Technology Crimes Institute (TCI). Through TCI Mr. Evans currently teaches over twelve hi-tech crime courses, ranging from computer crime investigation, identity theft, to password cracking and recovery. These classes are taught throughout southern California at community colleges, university and city government. Some of these schools include Chaffey College, Santa Monica College, Irvine Valley College, Cal. State Los Angeles, Pepperdine university, Rancho Santiago College, and Cal State San Marcos.
He was the founder of a publicly traded computer security company called The Cyber Group Network Corporation which specialized in stolen computer recovery. While CEO of the company Mr. Evans designed and invented the first wireless tracking device for computers titled, the Electronic Snitching Device, better known as e-snitch. E-Snitch can track a stolen computer almost anywhere in the world within 50 feet. He also designed Missingingcomputers.com a free website that allows victims of a computer theft to report their loss. While at the helm of The Cyber Group Network Mr. Evans designed Password Protection Information Retrieval Technology (PPIRT). PPIRT is the first security software of its kind that includes a 2,048 bit encryption program and computer recovery technology. PPIRT has the ability to track stolen computers over the Internet and across land line telephones.
In the year 2000 Mr. Evans produced and co-hosted one of the first radio talk shows discussing to hi-tech crimes. The show, "Cyber Crime Radio" and was heard throughout southern California and across the world via the Internet. "Cyber Crime Radio" was broadcast in the second largest radio market in the country on KIEV in Los Angeles.
Mr. Evans expertise is featured in a variety of media outlets. Evan’s appearances include, The History Channels "Modern Marvels", where he demonstrated the capabilities of computer surveillance and the destruction of cyber terrorism. Mr. Evans also served as an expert consultant to the following papers, Sun News Papers, LA Times, USA Today, Wells Fargo Business Journal, CEO Watch, Black Enterprise, JET Magazine and numerous others.
Mr. Evans is also the author of three books, "Memoirs Of A Hi-Tech Hustler", "Laptop Security Short & Simple", and the "Spyware Reference & Study Guide".
Mr. Evans is also a member of Computer Security Institute, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, American Society For Industrial Security, California Association Of License Investigators and Publishers Market Associations.
On February 9, 2002, Mr. Evans received the NAACP Humanitarian Award for his efforts to increase technology awareness and knowledge in low-income communities. He has also been recognized by Congress woman, Diane Watson, and then Chief of Police for the Los Angeles Police Department Bernard Parks, for his contributions to the community.
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The write up of this book appears very promising but in fact it is just a mix of different materials that has no real direction or point.
The first part of the book is "in the news" which seems to be reprints of different people online postings about spyware in general. It is complete disjointed and does not really give any detail information. One of the “articles” is “Spyware Primer” by Steve Bass. In the article Steve talks about continuing the discussion on key points within the article next week. I did not find another article by Steve Bass and I seriously doubt Ligatt Publishing is going to send me a new book next week. There are also parts that are underlined that appear to be web links. I think this issue arises since the pages seem to be printed straight from the articles but there is no actual reference/listing of the URL if you wanted to look at the link more in-depth. Following this are some basic stats, a glossary, and list of spyware makers. The best part is Chapter 6 "How To Clean Up Spyware". The chapter starts out stating it is a list of specific spyware and full details on how to remove spyware. Here are a few examples. A list of Mendware stating "This is a Trojan" really tells you how to remove it. Or, the listing for xxxtoolbar of "http://www.xxxtoolbar.com" is just inviting the reader to go to the site and get infected. Chapter 7 seems to be the place where they actually tell you how, sort of, to remove the spyware but since the chapter is labeled "Spyware Danger Levels" I would not look there for the instructions. The chapter also has the phantom links mentioned before where somethings are underlined but there is no URL listed. So it is nice to know X-Cleaner "Aconti" it would be real helpful is they listed the URL for X-Cleaner instead of just underlining X-Cleaner. The final parts are just straight prints of PowerPoint presentations. These are interesting but not that helpful without the actual lecture to go with it. As for the CD, the book states that there are certain items on the CD. Most of the items are there. But, two of the items, eBlaster and Spector Pro, are not included. Instead there is a text file telling you to go to the publishers website to purchase a serial number. When the write up and the back of the book state these items are "On The CD" I expect them to be on the CD.
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Completely plagiarized; do not purchase,
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Gregory Evans has plagiarized this book and as such it should not be purchased. Please see the following source:
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1 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Spyware Book Review,
By Walter Freeman "Walt" (Manhattan, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Spyware Reference & Study Guide (Paperback)
This book happens to be the best reference guide on Spyware I've been able to find up to this date. Although the first few chapters failed to provide some of the url's/links associated with the articles, it was still usefull in creating a starting point for further research.
The majority of the book is filled with usefull information and I was able to identify the various types of spyware on my machine and remove them without incident. The powerpoint presentations were easy to follow and when I found that I had additional questions I merely contacted the author, Mr. Evans who was very professional and eager to answer my specific questions. Overall I give this reference guide 4 stars because of the vast amount of information it provides from news articles to working programs provided on the CD which accompanies the book.
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