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

by T. Bradley
November 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
279 pages
7h 17m
English
Syngress
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Index

802.11x wireless protocols, 126–127

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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
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 ...
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ISBN: 9781597491143