The Complete Idiot's Guide to Protecting Yourself Online - Softcover

Gralla, Preston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789720353 ISBN 13: 9780789720351

Publisher: Que, 1999

Synopsis

A guide to online security explains how to avoid Internet scams, shop online safely, monitor children's Web access, block "spammers," and protect one's computer from viruses

About this title

About the Author

Preston Gralla is Executive Editor for ZDNet, and a long-time journalist with Ziff-Davis Publications. Preston is the author of 11 books, including the popular How the Internet Works, and The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Online Shopping. An award-winning writer and editor, he has written about the Internet and technology for many newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and PC Magazine.

From the Back Cover

Do you like buying things on the Internet with your credit card? Think other people wouldnt like buying things with your credit card, too? Have you given out personal information to register for "contests" and "events?" Beware. Sometimes the wizard making the promises is only a little man sitting behind a curtain pulling levers and talking through microphones. The Complete Idiots Guide to Protecting Yourself Online makes sure that you take the necessary steps and precautions when registering, ordering, or even just conversing on the Internet. Keep people out of your personal life by creating hacker-proof passwords, removing your name from databases, and eliminating a third partys ability to accumulate information about you--such as address, Social Security number, credit card numbers, and more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Que
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0789720353
• ISBN 13: 9780789720351
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348