How to Do Everything to Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups, and Spyware
How to Do Everything to Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups, and Spyware
Swat spam, vanquish viruses, knock down pop-ups, and expose spyware with help from this one-of-a-kind resource. Loaded with insightful advice, practical tips, and trial software, this book-and-CD defense will help you rid your computer of the perils and nuisances of Web surfing once and for all. Author and tech expert Ken Feinstein gives easy-to-understand explanations of the technologies at work, and just exactly what steps you can take to take back your e-mail, your surfing enjoyment, your privacy, and your computer.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars A Program on the CD solved my problem.
I’ve tried to use the internet as it was intended, a free and open system where I could surf, send e-mails to friends and business associates, and generally tried to be a good internet citizen. Why is it then that about 60% of the e-mail I receive is trying to sell me investments, medicine, a phony degree, or enlargement of certain body parts, some of which I don’t even have.
The answer, of course, is that it’s free to send out e-mails in any quantity to any list of addresses. What I don’t understand is why the congress has allowed it to continue, but they do.
The answer is that you have to be prepared to defend yourself from these unwanted intrusions. I thought I was doing pretty well, until a particularly nasty adware program managed to get into and install itself in my system. One of the packages included on the CD in this book solved the problem, that alone made the book worth its price.
5 Stars Remove the trash and keep what you need.
Anyone who has been around computers lately can tell you that spyware, pop-up, adware and other assorted infections is enough to drive you right up the wall. Trying to remove all the problems could become a full time occupation. How does one combat all these nasty problems and still have the computer up and running?
Having spent that last several months working on a spyware lockdown, this book has provided some very important information for me to the project. The book does give you a great deal of interesting reading that is written for just about all levels of comprehension.
The author has given you a number of ways to configure, install, setup and troubleshoot the various ways to block spyware, spam, the ever annoying pop-ups and even viruses. What this book does is lay out a way for the reader to first take in the concepts and then try it out. As always you need to make sure you have a backup of the system you will be working.
The book does come with a cd that has several demos and even a couple of freeware utilities, although the Spybot and Ad-Aware are out of date since the printing, they are still useful and best of all free. Overall the book does a good job of informing the user without being over technical and if you are new to computers this might be a good pickup to see what you are in for.
4 Stars Useful Tips To Help Keep Your PC Pest Free
There is no question that the pests addressed in this book are a significant threat to the everyday functionality of computers. This is particularly true of home users who don’t have the benefit of a network security administrator to implement and maintain a perimeter firewall and ensure that antivirus detection is kept up to date.
Home users generally think of the computer as an appliance. They don’t want to know more than they have to in order to use it for its intended purpose. They aren’t trying to become computer security experts any more than they want to understand the physics behind how the microwave oven works.
Unfortunately, you can use a microwave oven without understanding the physics, but at least a rudimentary understanding of the threats out there and how to protect your computer or network from them are required to effectively use the computer.
Feinstein does a good job of explaining what the threats are and why you are at risk, and then providing the reader with fairly simple instructions to help shield the computer from that threat and protect your data and your network bandwidth so you can use the computer as you intended.
This is a good resource for a home user trying to learn about protecting their PC
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5 Stars Feel safe again online
As someone who’s been dealing with a lot of spam and spyware problems lately, I found this to be an invaluable book. Feinstein really knows his stuff and offers lots of great info and practical advice, suggestions, etc. It comes w/ a CD-ROM too, which is a nice plus. Highly recommended for anyone having trouble with spam, spyware, viruses, and pop-ups. Read it and you’ll feel safer about your online life.
5 Stars Stay a step ahead of spammers and hackers
If you want to fight back against spammers, first you need to know how they operate. This book explains in detail the techniques spammers use to create their mailing lists. That’s essential to understand if you want to avoid spam in the first place. The book also offers tips and techniques for coping with an inbox already overrun with spam.
The same is true with viruses and spyware. You first need to learn how these nasty things spread so you can avoid getting infected. The book goes into great detail on this issue with clear explanations and very helpful advice. For those already afflicted, it explains how to remove a virus or spyware infection. The software on the included CD helps with that as well.
The section on pop-ups explains what pop-ups are and where they come from. It then teaches you how to effectively use pop-up blocking software.
Make no mistake, this book is written for the general user; it’s no reference text for IT professionals. But even experienced users will find a lot of worthwhile material.
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