Buyer's Guide
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- Set Antivirus Software for Maximum Protection
It's dangerous out there on the wild and woolly frontier of the Internet. Whether you have an always-on cable or DSL connection or you use dial-up, you're on a road that can deliver all sorts of nasties directly to your PC through downloads or e-mail attachments. Virus writers are becoming increasingly clever. Antivirus software is your absolutely essential first line of defense--if you don't have antivirus software, you need to get it now.
- Privacy Watch: What Your Antivirus Software Won't Tell You
There may be software on your PC that hides itself like a virus, silently keeps tabs on your PC like a virus, and e-mails the data to the person who planted it like a virus. So why does your antivirus program not tell you about it? Good question.
- Free Virus Protection
Along with the increasing interconnectedness of our computers, the sophistication of the software we use and the speed of the hardware comes increasing threats from a malicious type of software -- the virus. There is no question that everyone needs to protect their computers from viruses, but can it be done without spending lots of money to buy anti-virus software and spending even more money in yearly subscription fees to keep the software up-to-date? In a word, yes!
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- Top 9 Windows Antivirus
Antivirus software is must-have protection. This review picks the best antivirus software based on its virus detection abilities, features, and breadth of protection. Whether you're seeking total system coverage or an ala carte solution, each of the following products provides superb virus protection for Windows-based PCs. Because every system is unique, evaluate several of these antivirus products to find the software best suited for your PC and your level of experience.
- Book Review: Have You Locked The Castle Gate?
This book provides an introductory overview to the various aspects of computer security. Valuable information for all to know in terms that most can understand.
- Inside Internet Security
The bottomline for Inside Internet Security: What Hackers Don't Want You to Know is that it is a good introductory book to the concepts of information security, but the information is dated now
- Safe & Secure
The bottomline for Safe and Secure is that it was an excellent book in its time. The fundamentals are still solid and it is well-written, but there are more current books on the subject.
- Essential Computer Security
This is probably the easiest book review I have ever written. If you rely on computers for any aspect of your life, you owe it to yourself to read and re-read this book. The book's subtitle is "Everyone's Guide to E-Mail, Internet, and Wireless Security" and it delivers in each of these respects and more. The author lays a good groundwork for understanding computer security from the general user's perspective and in the common person's language. If you are a network administrator who needs to help hapless users grasp computer security, this book will prove to be a treasure trove of good advice for them.
- How To Do Everything to Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups & Spyware
Spam, viruses, pop-up ads and spyware are all pests that at their best are a significant annoyance and at their worst can destroy your data and render your computer effectively useless. No matter how you look at it you don't want these things in your computer and you need to do what you can to make sure your computer stays clean and functional.
- Always Use Protection
The home user market is a significant area of computer insecurity and the children and teens are the ones who are joining the Internet community each day with no concept of computer or network security. Teens also tend to engage in riskier computer use such as file sharing, chat rooms and online gaming. Dan Appleman provides the information teens, or anyone else for that matter, should know before venturing out onto the Internet or World Wide Web.
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