Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet

Protect your children from dangers that lurk on the Internet. Learn to identify the real threats--be they pedophiles, cyber-stalkers, hackers, spyware, viruses, or adware--and formulate an effective protection plan.

Choose the best software for your needs and your budget from the book’s independent review of firewalls, web filters, anti-virus products, and more. Plus, a companion Web site hosted by the author includes updated data and information.

Features :

Extensive screenshots and graphics included to show parents exactly what is being discussed – this helps parents recognize what malicious emails look like.
Text is written by a parent for other parents and avoids the use of jargon and uses real-world examples and concepts that parents can relate to.
Written for a global audience and shows the worldwide proliferation of safety issues for children and how to solve for them.
Reviews 27 different types of software (firewalls, web filtering, email filtering, antivirus and malicious code detection) to provide parents with choices appropriate to their needs, experience and budget.
Companion website created and hosted by the author includes additional statistics, known threats/schemes against children, links to book reviews, contests for book giveaways, etc.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Real Threats to Your Children on the Internet and What You Can Do about Them

Chapter 1: What Is the Internet?
Chapter 2: What Are the Threats to Your Children and How Serious Are They?
Chapter 3: How to Avoid and Reduce the Risks to Your Kids on the Internet

Part II: The Best (Not Necessarily the Most Expensive) Software to Protect Your Kids

Chapter 4: Content-Filtering Software
Chapter 5: Using Filtering Software to Keep Out the Junk Mail
Chapter 6: Internet Firewall Software
Chapter 7: Antivirus Software
Chapter 8: Malicious Software Detection
Chapter 9: Putting Your Defense into Place Appendix: Spyware and Adware

Written by Simon Johnson. Published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., 2004.


Catalogue No.	0-07-225741-5
Price	$28.95
Format	Softcover
Pages	318
Language	English only

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