Steal This Computer Book 3: What They Won't Tell You about the Internet - Softcover

Wallace Wang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593270003 ISBN 13: 9781593270001

Publisher: No Starch Press, 2003

Synopsis

This offbeat, non-technical book looks at what hackers do, how they do it, and how you can protect yourself. The third edition of this bestseller (over 150,000 copies sold) adopts the same informative, irreverent, and entertaining style that made the first two editions a huge success. Thoroughly updated, this edition also covers rootkits, spyware, web bugs, identity theft, hacktivism, wireless hacking (wardriving), biometrics, and firewalls.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Is your computer safe from viruses and malicious hackers? No matter how secure your computer is, it is 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 mechanisms
* How to fight back against spammers
* How to tell when your machine is being attacked 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

About the Author:

Wallace Wang is the author of several best-selling computer books including of the Steal This Computer Book series, Steal This File Sharing Book, The Book of Nero 7, and Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing (all No Starch Press). He is also a successful standup comic who has appeared on A&E’s "Evening at the Improv" and appears regularly at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas.

About this edition

• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1593270003
• ISBN 13: 9781593270001
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 384