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Virus Proof : The Ultimate Guide to Protecting Your PC

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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.

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?

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.

The book is an easy fast read -- which you should read at your PC so you can try out the wide-range of tricks this book presents.

I learned how to protect my system and the ways hackers can attack a system.

A good read -- well worth your time.

I had a great time with this book. Not only did I learn how viruses attack systems, I learned how programmers create viruses. I also learned how to surf the Web anonymously and how to send anonymous e-mail. Each chapter presents a pretty cool topic and provides you with operations you can try yourself. If you connect to the Net, you should have a copy.

When I saw this book on COMPUSA, I thought "well, another book on how to protect yourself against these things"....BUT, as soon as I began to explore it, I realized that I was in front of a GOOD competition to THH book (written by Carolyn Meinl). This books covers issues like how the 'bad guys' send annonimous e-mails (and how YOU can do it too!), how phreakers do their job (and how YOU can do it too!). If you like this kind of stuff like I do, then this book is for YOU. FIVE STARS.

This book is very informative and you will be very suprised at the 411 contained in the book. This is a very good book for anyone involved with internet and computers. I think that this book is well worth its price. You will not be dissapointed. =)