Help users recognize and defend home networks against spam, spyware, scams, pop-ups and cookies

This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Home Networking Simplified, helps end users protect their home networks against spam, spyware, pop-ups, scams and cookies.

In addition to viruses and worms, users must protect their home networks from a host of annoying and potentially dangerous program, such spam, spyware, Internet and e-mail scams, pop-ups, and cookies. This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Home Networking Simplified, focuses on spam, cookies, spyware, and scams-what they are, how they work, and how to get rid of or at least control them. This chapter is a great resource for IT professionals who must explain common security threats to non-technical users.

Title: Home Networking Simplified
ISBN: 1587201364
Published: May, 2005
Authors: Jim Doherty and Neil Anderson
Chapter: Chapter 16: Other Vulnerabilities (Spam, Cookies, Pop-Ups, Spyware, and Scams)
Published by Cisco Press

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