Like biological viruses, computer viruses can spread quickly and are often difficult to get rid of without causing damage. Virus Proof: The Ultimate Guide to Protecting Your System provides key steps you should take to protect your system from these destructive viruses. Inside you will learn how to recover data that is lost as a result of a virus, what common viruses do, and how they spread. Virus Proof is an excellent resource for any computer user, from the beginner to the expert.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Virus for Dummies,
By Lucio Franca (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Virus Proof : The Ultimate Guide to Protecting Your PC (Paperback)
If you want to learn how viruses work or how to create one or how to detect one, forget them. This book is too shallow. He will teach you what viruses are, how to send anonymous e-mails and others things like that. That's all. If you really need to understand about viruses try a different book, please.
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This doesn't rate a single star,
By David Harley (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Virus Proof : The Ultimate Guide to Protecting Your PC (Paperback)
It's difficult to say who should be more ashamed of themselves: the author for writing this incompetent twaddle, the publisher and editors for accepting it uncritically, or Network Associates for apparently endorsing it: this will do their reputation as security vendors no good at all. The author clearly knows very little of networking, virus or anti-virus technology, and the source code presented is irrelevant. And why a chapter about Y2K in a book published in the year 2000?
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Amateur misconceptions at their worst.,
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This review is from: Virus Proof : The Ultimate Guide to Protecting Your PC (Paperback)
This book is a struggling collection of mistaken, useless, and potentially dangerous misinformation. The author has clearly not done his homework, and is not very knowledgeable about viruses.Apart from the many errors in the book, the innacurate descriptions, and irrelevant information, the author also includes bad recommendations on how to protect yourself from viruses, to wit: backing up your registry will NOT protect you from viruses. This book is no more than a collection of virus-related buzzwords. You will not learny anything from this book. In fact, much of the information presented in it is simply WRONG. I give it a swift thumbs down.
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If you have used PCs for any length of time, or if you watch the evening news, you have undoubtedly heard reports (and sometimes rumors) of a wide range of computer viruses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
remailer site, anonymous electronic mail, virus proof, system from viruses, following key concepts, time the system starts, click your mouse, virus hoaxes, virus places, cookie files, clicking your mouse, infected system, spam messages, macro viruses, dialog box Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Internet Options, Recycle Bin, Microsoft Wallet, Outlook Express, Registry Editor, Control Panel, Cancel Figure, Microsoft Corporation, Windows Registry, Net Watcher, Close Program, Cap'n Crunch, Deleted Items, Microsoft Web, System Tools, Visual Basic, Windows Explorer, Remove Programs Properties, Sent Items, Verisign Web, Custom Level, Microsoft Internet Explorer, New Year, Research Center, Using Digital Signatures New!
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If you have used PCs for any length of time, or if you watch the evening news, you have undoubtedly heard reports (and sometimes rumors) of a wide range of computer viruses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
remailer site, anonymous electronic mail, virus proof, system from viruses, following key concepts, time the system starts, click your mouse, virus hoaxes, virus places, cookie files, clicking your mouse, infected system, spam messages, macro viruses, dialog box Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Internet Options, Recycle Bin, Microsoft Wallet, Outlook Express, Registry Editor, Control Panel, Cancel Figure, Microsoft Corporation, Windows Registry, Net Watcher, Close Program, Cap'n Crunch, Deleted Items, Microsoft Web, System Tools, Visual Basic, Windows Explorer, Remove Programs Properties, Sent Items, Verisign Web, Custom Level, Microsoft Internet Explorer, New Year, Research Center, Using Digital Signatures New!
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