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    Internet Security is something we all need hopefully we will all be better prepared after taking this class. Having virus protection is highly important with wireless Internet having a secured connection is needed. Some of the most popular ones to watch for would be Malware. This is where a user gets tricked into downloading software with malicious intent. Viruses are used to take over a computer to steal information. A Trojan horse pretends to be harmless until downloaded onto the computer.

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    Internet Security is something we all need hopefully we will all be better prepared after taking this class. Having virus protection is highly important with wireless Internet having a secured connection is needed. Some of the most popular ones to watch for would be Malware. This is where a user gets tricked into downloading software with malicious intent. Viruses are used to take over a computer to steal information. A Trojan horse pretends to be harmless until downloaded onto the computer.

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    -Expanded HTML April Burnett IT/220 Internet Concepts (AXIA) September 22, 2011 Joseph Sambuco --> <html> <head> <title>Internet Security</title> </head> <body> <h1>Why is Internet Security so Important</h1> </body> <b>having virus protection is highly important</b> <em>with wireless internet having a secured connection is needed</em> <i>browser choice is the users choice</i> <em>Google chrome and Firefox are two examples</em> <hr/>once you get acquainted with the web browsers<hr/><hr/> they are are similar <hr/> <ul> <li>types of firewalls</li> <li>packet filters</li> <li>circuit-level gateways</li> <li>application-level gateways</li> </ul> <p>Malicious software and antivirus can range from different things. Some of the most popular ones to watch for would be Malware. This is where a user gets tricked into downloading software with malicious intent. Viruses are used to take over a computer to steal information. A Trojan horse pretends to be harmless until downloaded onto the computer.</p> <p>A few internet security programs that will help to stop these viruses are Norton, Kaspersky, and McAfee. There are many other free programs that can be found online but you will need to be careful of which ones. There are some that will look like a security feature but the are spam.</p> <font color="red">Internet security is something we all need</font> <font size="24">hopefully we will all be better prepared after taking this class.</font> </html>

    Internet Security
    is highly
    important
    having virus protection is highly important with wireless internet having a secured connection is needed browser choice is the users choice Google chrome and Firefox are two examples once you get acquainted with the web browsers they are are similar

    types of firewalls packet filters circuit-level gateways application-level gateways

    Malicious software and antivirus can range from different things. Some of the most popular ones to watch for would be Malware. This is where a user gets tricked into downloading software with malicious intent. Viruses are used to take over a computer to steal information. A Trojan horse pretends to be harmless until downloaded onto the computer. A few internet security programs that will help to stop these viruses are Norton, Kaspersky, and McAfee. There are many other free programs that can be found online but you will need to be careful of which ones. There are some that will look like a security feature but the are spam.

    hopefully we will all be better prepared after taking this class.


    Internet security is something we all need

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