1. The Internet for Beginners Section Four of Four From the Richard Sugden Library Spencer, MA Jillian M. Parsons

2. Section Four: Today’s Presentation Being Careful when Using the Net Summary

3. Being Careful When Using the Net

4. Who has seen that AOL commercial?

5. What AOL doesn’t tell you Definitions Advertising Gimmicks Pop Ups Pop Up Solutions Spyware Spyware Solutions

6. What AOL doesn’t tell you Spam Spam Solutions Viruses Virus Solutions

7. What AOL doesn’t tell you Identity Theft Identity Theft Solutions The Internet and your Privacy

8. Advertising Gimmicks Almost every site has at least one or two advertisements. They may flash, they may move around, or they may move only when your mouse is over the ad. If you are confronted with content that seems unrelated, or is not what you are looking for, feel free to ignore it, or if you can, “x out of it”

9. Pop Ups Pop-up ads are a form of online advertising on the Internet intended to increase the amount of visitors to that site, or to capture email addresses. They get their name because they pop- up uninvited while you may be doing other things on the Internet. Some web browsers claim to block pop-up ads, but I would recommend toolbars that offer several useful services in one package.

10. Pop ups Toolbar Solutions Yahoo! Toolbar MSN Toolbar Google Toolbar

11. Examples of Internet Toolbars Yahoo! Google

12. Spyware Spyware covers a broad category of software, created with mean-spirited intent, that takes partial control of a computer's operation without the informed consent of the machine's user. Spyware sometimes manifests itself as an advertisement or includes itself in a download.

13. Anti-Spyware Programs Spyware infestations can be prevented or disabled before they infect your computer. Examples of Anti-Spyware software: www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE www.download.com/ Spybot-Search- Destroy/3000-8022-10289035.html Patrick Kolla's Spybot - Search & Destroy

14. Spam Spam, in this sense, involves sending nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients by email. By definition, spam occurs without the permission of the recipients. Following links in email spam, or opening attachments to these email could result in a computer virus or the introduction of Spyware.

15. Avoiding Spam Computer users can avoid e-mail spam. End-users can use automated e-mail filtering on their own computers. Most email programs allow users to identify junk mail. This block prohibits the identified Spam from that specific sender from getting into your mailbox.

16. Viruses Regarding computer security, a virus is a self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other code or other documents The insertion of a virus into the program is termed as an infection, and the infected file (or executable code that is not part of a file) is called a host.

17. Anti-Virus Software Available through: www.mcafee.com/us/ McAfee Antivirus Software and Intrusion Prevention Solutions Or, www.symantec.com/ Norton Antivirus and computer protection products

18. Identity Theft Identity theft is usually the result of serious breaches of privacy.

19. Identity Theft Except for the simplest credit- related cases, it is usually not possible without breakdowns in: –customer privacy, –consumer privacy, or –client confidentiality

20. Customer Privacy In which case the consequences may be limited to one company; typically the one that leaked the data in the first place, e.g. account numbers.

21. Consumer Privacy Is more serious, where credit card numbers or other generally-useful identity data are stolen and used much more widely.

22. Client Confidentiality Such breeches make it easy to effectively impersonate someone, by using confidential information that an ordinary impersonator would not have access to.

23. The Internet and Your Privacy The ability to control what information one reveals about oneself over the Internet, and to control who can access that information

24. “Let’s talk about ducks.” Is AOL really evil?

25. WORKSHOP TASK Risk analysis: Pros and Cons

26. Conclusion

27. Review Using the Internet Explorer Web Browser Establishing Home Websites / Web Pages The Web Address (URL)

28. Review Searching Everyday Uses for the Internet Saving and Printing Being Careful when Using the Net

29. Summary We’ve covered a lot of information here. You will want to keep these handouts and refer to them as needed. Please leave a message for me at the Circulation Desk with any questions you might have.

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31. What do I do now? Make a plan Write down goals Brainstorm on how to achieve goals Practice!