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Absolute Beginner’s Guide To: Security, Spam, Spyware & Viruses
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Absolute Beginner’s Guide To: Security, Spam, Spyware & Viruses

by Andy Walker
November 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
384 pages
9h 22m
English
Que
Content preview from Absolute Beginner’s Guide To: Security, Spam, Spyware & Viruses

Introduction: Ignore This Book at Your Own Peril!

Viruses.

Spyware.

Spam.

Phishers.

War drivers.

Snoops.

Hackers.

Salad cream.

And identity thieves.

These are eight good reasons why you should buy this book, plus one arbitrary reference to a British salad condiment from Heinz that I love, just to keep the list interesting.

If you run Windows XP, the most insecure computer operating system ever invented, these eight nasty threats will rob you blind and torment you within an inch of your digital life and make your glorious and shiny minivan existence starkly miserable and mud splattered.

These computer nasties are a big fat plague. Good thing salad cream was invented.

And the worst of it is that very few computer owners know how bad it really is. No salad cream ...

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