Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security

Index

802.11x wireless protocols, 126–127

A

access

restricting to home wireless network, 130–131

Windows, levels and permissions, 18–21

accounts

Guest, disabling in Windows XP, 11–12

user. See user accounts

Acrobat Reader, 208–209

active scripting and Web surfing, 112–115

ActiveX controls, 106

Ad-aware, 145, 146, 147–148

addresses

IP. See IP addresses

MAC, 130–131

spoofed e-mail, 92–93

Administrator account

securing home system, 128–129

Windows XP, 9–13

Adobe Acrobat Reader, 208–209

advertising

See also spam, spyware

adware, 140–144, 150

Aethera e-mail (Linux), 193–194

AfterSTEP window manager, 187

AirSnarf, 134

Amazon.com, 107

antivirus software

using, 44–47

for wireless networks, 133

application gateways, 74

applications

in desktop environments ...