
Steal this Computer Book 3
What they won´t tell you about the Internet
Wallace Wang(Author)
No Starch Press
3rd Edition
Published in May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
XX, 360 pages
978-1-59327-000-1 (ISBN)
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Description
IS YOUR COMPUTER SAFE FROM COMPUTER VIRUSES AND MALICIOUS HACKERS? No matter how secure you think your computer is, it´s still vulnerable to a variety of attacks that can ruin your files or hoodwink you out of thousands of dollars.
This newly revised third edition of the best-selling Steal This Computer Book will help you protect yourself. You´ll discover:
- How to tackle spyware, web bugs, and adware seemingly innocent programs that harvest your private information
- How hackers hide their identities and shred their files
- How hackers write computer viruses and worms
- How Trojan Horse programs work and how to defend against them
- How hackers steal software and defeat copy protection copy-protection mechanisms
- How to fight back against spammers
- How to tell when your machine is being attacked and what you can do to protect it
- Where the hackers are, how they probe a target and sneak into a computer, and what they do when they get there
This newly revised third edition of the best-selling Steal This Computer Book will help you protect yourself. You´ll discover:
- How to tackle spyware, web bugs, and adware seemingly innocent programs that harvest your private information
- How hackers hide their identities and shred their files
- How hackers write computer viruses and worms
- How Trojan Horse programs work and how to defend against them
- How hackers steal software and defeat copy protection copy-protection mechanisms
- How to fight back against spammers
- How to tell when your machine is being attacked and what you can do to protect it
- Where the hackers are, how they probe a target and sneak into a computer, and what they do when they get there
More details
Edition
3., Aufl.
Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 18 cm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59327-000-1 (9781593270001)
Schweitzer Classification
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05/2006
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Book
11/2000
1st Edition
No Starch Press
€25.00
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Person
Best-selling author Wallace Wang is a former contributor to Boardwatch Magazine, where he wrote a monthly column called iaNotes From the Underground.l. He is also a successful stand-up comic who has appeared on A&E(tm)s i&Evening at the Improv.lg He appears regularly at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas.