Product Description

* Directed to home and small business users who know they need to protect their systems but aren't sure where to start
* Provides simple, easy-to-digest instructions for using each part of the suite: AntiVirus, Personal Firewall, Privacy Control, AntiSpam, and Parental Control, plus Productivity Control from the professional edition
* Shows readers how to set the applications for fastest computing speed, how to respond to firewall alerts, block unwanted Web ads, customize access control for shared networks, read event logs, deal with Internet attackers, and much more

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1165687 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 381 pages

From the Back Cover
Dodge attackers, skip spam, and protect your privacy

Here's how to secure your home front without slowing down progress

Seems there's always somebody or something out there intent on invading your personal cyberspace. Norton Internet Security is a single arsenal that defends you from spammers, pop-up artists, virus carriers, and sneaks with snoopware. This friendly guide helps you use each of its weapons to your best advantage, without losing speed or getting lost in translation.

Discover how to

• Erect and maintain a firewall
• Recognize different types of attacks
• Combat adware, spyware, and keystroke loggers
• Manage quarantined files
• Secure your laptop or wireless network
• Recover infected data

About the Author
Greg Holden is founder and owner of Stylus Media, which creates Web pages for other small businesses. He's a prolific author and a devotee of Norton security software.

Customer Reviews

Details about Protecting Yourself
The Internet was set up for people to share information. It has obviously grown a lot since then, mostly beneficially, but it seems that there's always somebody or something out there intent on invading your personal cyberspace. Norton Internet Security is an arsenal of products that defends you (more or less) from smammers, pop-up artists, virus carriers, and spyware.

Unfortunately, the programs and routines that make up Norton Internet Security require implementation, tuning, updating and constant vigilance to keep a system protected. It seems that as soon as a way to stop the intruders is found, they re do their invasive routines.

There's also a short, perhaps too short section on CoolWebSearch, a site to be avoided at all costs, unless you want them to take over your browser and point it to the sites that pay them money.

A valuable reference for a wide audience
This book is a very useful companion to the Norton Internet Security product line, clearly and intelligently organized. Norton Internet Security is the best security product being made right now, and this book will show you how to use this software to your own best advantage. It includes a great deal of well presented general information about computer security, without sliding into techno-paranoia, a common flaw with books on the subject. The general user should feel much more confident with their software after reading this book, and the specialist will appreciate the careful collation of so much information into a single well-written text.