Own Your Space: Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online

 Written for computer and Internet savvy "tweens" and teens, this book is also a useful resource for the adults they rely on.

Whether you are a parent, caregiver, or educator, you can keep up with the latest computer and online safety issues and help kids learn to avoid the real dangers that exist in their Internet-connected world.

You have been immersed in the technology since preschool. You download music, Google your homework, and constantly IM your friends. You check your email before dinner, tweak your MySpace page, and bypass that hardcopy diary for your own 31337 space in the blogosphere. While you’re doing that, you also need to protect yourself. This book is about keeping safe — protecting your data, your identity, and yourself without giving up all the great stuff the Net puts at your fingertips.

Learn how to

    Kill viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware
    Give Spam the curb and smash web bugs
    Understand just how public your “private” blogs are
    Keep wireless freeloaders off your network
    Safeguard your parents’ credit card and financial data
    Understand what tools you need and how to tweak them


    Title Own Your Space: Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online
    Author(s) Linda McCarthy
    Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (October 22, 2006)
    Paperback 240 pages
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0321426428
    ISBN-13: 978-0321426420
    eBook: http://www.microsoft.com/security/resources/book-teens.aspx