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The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security
r3lody writes "There are many households that have high-speed Internet connections, yet most people are simply not doing enough to protect themselves from the many exploits that exist. The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security by Andrew Conry-Murray and Vincent Weafer was written to speak to those people. Symantec Press is the publisher, yet it remains reasonably vendor-neutral. This book is for non-technical people. Its ten chapters cover a relatively slim 240 pages, so it should not intimidate someone who is not a computer professional. Also, you do not really have to read the book front-to-back, but you can focus in on the chapter or chapters that interest you and have fairly complete information." Read on for the rest of Ray's review.
The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security
author
Andrew Conry-Murray and Vincent Weafer
pages
240
publisher
Symantec Press
rating
8/10
reviewer
Ray Lodato
ISBN
0321356411
summary
A slim volume packed with valuable information for non-technical Internet users.
The first chapter gives the reader a basic overview of the risks of using the Internet without some steps to protect yourself. Fraudsters, those who ply you with get-rich-quick schemes and other spam-delivered scams, are distinguished from hijackers who compromise your machine for local data or to make it part of a “bot farm”. The remaining chapters discuss various aspects of security exposures, how to protect yourself from them, and conclude with a checklist of high points and “Helpful Resources” that contain web sites, phone numbers, and occasional additional side-bars with more in-depth examples.
The next chapter is a very informative chapter on preventing identity theft. This part of the book is worthwhile, even if you don’t use the Internet for financial transactions. The authors mention how your personal data can be stolen from company databases, despite precautions you yourself have taken. There are discussions on social engineering and dumpster-diving, as well as phishing scams and keyloggers. The best part of the chapter is the “Recovering from Identify Theft” section. Hopefully you will never need the information there, but it’s very helpful to see it collected in a simple bulleted list. The second side-bar at the end discusses a personal account of a brush with identity theft.
Chapter 3 covers firewalls, which most people think is the only protection they need. It discusses the basics of Internet Protocol (IP), and what firewalls can and can’t do. Lists of both free and commercial firewall products are provided. It wraps up with a few sites that can test your firewall settings to see if you are really protected or not. There were a couple of minor errors (for example, 192.101.432.156 is offered as an IP address, but the third number can’t be more than 255), but most non-technical people need the product lists provided.
The following two chapters cover the various forms of “malware” (viruses, worms, adware, spyware, and Trojans). Conry-Murray and Weafer provide several preventative actions you can take to avoid infection — the most important involves using your common sense (e.g. “Use a firewall” and “Don’t Open Strange E-Mail”) They wrap up by describing how to remove malware via the available anti-spyware programs.
The final category of unwanted Internet debris is spam. The authors state that for most people “spam is an annoyance rather than a plague.” However, they go on to disclose figures that estimate anywhere from 50 to 90% of the 30 billion e-mails sent each day are spam. To explain why spam works, a side-bar talks about Jeremy Jaynes, who was convicted in November 2004 for spamming. He generated about 10,000 credit card sales per month. Two-thirds of those were returned, yet he still netted more that $100,000 a month.
Chapter 7 covers securing Windows XP. At the time of publishing, Microsoft had come out with XP Service Pack 2, with the Windows Security Center. A large section deals with installing SP2 and configuring the Security Center. It’s kept at a level that most users can comprehend and follow, making it another very worthwhile chapter. The following section describes securing Internet Explorer 6 in great detail. The authors do suggest, however, that you might want to use a different browser, such as Firefox or Opera. The thinking is that Firefox and Opera will be more secure because fewer exploits are targeted towards them.
Locking down Windows and IE is not enough to keep your family safe. That’s why they devote the next chapter to “Keeping Your Family Safe Online.” Pitched mostly to parents of younger kids, chapter 8 starts by talking about blocking objectionable content using IE’s Content Adviser. Sexual predators is the next topic, and the authors give the reader good information on how to monitor your children’s online activities, as well as how to report solicitations to the authorities. The final topic revolves around file-sharing software. While they mention the prospect of downloading viruses, the legal ramification of potentially housing illegal downloads is the most important lesson to take away from this section.
Many homes are now using wireless access points. Unfortunately, poor configurations open them up for eavesdroppers and bandwidth hijackers. The simple precautions of changing and hiding the network name (SSID) and changing the password will do a lot, but encryption using WEP, WPA, or WPA2 will help a lot more. They also go into the security issues of public hotspots, including the prospect of “Evil Twins” (user computers that offer a look-alike access point just to steal your personal information).
The book wraps up with a chapter on “Privacy and the Internet.” Anyone who conducts any transactions over the Internet has their personal data stored on a computer that might be accessed online. The key precaution is to not divulge any information you don’t absolutely have to. Data Brokers collect amazing amounts of information on each of us. Three major companies, Acxiom, ChoicePoint and LexisNexis are individually described, with information on how to get reports on what information they’ve recorded, and possibly how to opt-out of having it stored.
Andrew Conry-Murray and Vincent Weafer conclude the book by giving the reader five basic steps to protect themselves online. However, I prefer their final, single simple rule: Use Your Common Sense.
The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security, though a slim book, is packed with a lot of valuable information pitched to the non-technical user. I believe that anyone with a computer connected to the Internet would benefit from reading this book.
You can purchase The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.
The next chapter is a very informative chapter on preventing identity theft. This part of the book is worthwhile, even if you don’t use the Internet for financial transactions. The authors mention how your personal data can be stolen from company databases, despite precautions you yourself have taken. There are discussions on social engineering and dumpster-diving, as well as phishing scams and keyloggers. The best part of the chapter is the “Recovering from Identify Theft” section. Hopefully you will never need the information there, but it’s very helpful to see it collected in a simple bulleted list. The second side-bar at the end discusses a personal account of a brush with identity theft.
Chapter 3 covers firewalls, which most people think is the only protection they need. It discusses the basics of Internet Protocol (IP), and what firewalls can and can’t do. Lists of both free and commercial firewall products are provided. It wraps up with a few sites that can test your firewall settings to see if you are really protected or not. There were a couple of minor errors (for example, 192.101.432.156 is offered as an IP address, but the third number can’t be more than 255), but most non-technical people need the product lists provided.
The following two chapters cover the various forms of “malware” (viruses, worms, adware, spyware, and Trojans). Conry-Murray and Weafer provide several preventative actions you can take to avoid infection — the most important involves using your common sense (e.g. “Use a firewall” and “Don’t Open Strange E-Mail”) They wrap up by describing how to remove malware via the available anti-spyware programs.
The final category of unwanted Internet debris is spam. The authors state that for most people “spam is an annoyance rather than a plague.” However, they go on to disclose figures that estimate anywhere from 50 to 90% of the 30 billion e-mails sent each day are spam. To explain why spam works, a side-bar talks about Jeremy Jaynes, who was convicted in November 2004 for spamming. He generated about 10,000 credit card sales per month. Two-thirds of those were returned, yet he still netted more that $100,000 a month.
Chapter 7 covers securing Windows XP. At the time of publishing, Microsoft had come out with XP Service Pack 2, with the Windows Security Center. A large section deals with installing SP2 and configuring the Security Center. It’s kept at a level that most users can comprehend and follow, making it another very worthwhile chapter. The following section describes securing Internet Explorer 6 in great detail. The authors do suggest, however, that you might want to use a different browser, such as Firefox or Opera. The thinking is that Firefox and Opera will be more secure because fewer exploits are targeted towards them.
Locking down Windows and IE is not enough to keep your family safe. That’s why they devote the next chapter to “Keeping Your Family Safe Online.” Pitched mostly to parents of younger kids, chapter 8 starts by talking about blocking objectionable content using IE’s Content Adviser. Sexual predators is the next topic, and the authors give the reader good information on how to monitor your children’s online activities, as well as how to report solicitations to the authorities. The final topic revolves around file-sharing software. While they mention the prospect of downloading viruses, the legal ramification of potentially housing illegal downloads is the most important lesson to take away from this section.
Many homes are now using wireless access points. Unfortunately, poor configurations open them up for eavesdroppers and bandwidth hijackers. The simple precautions of changing and hiding the network name (SSID) and changing the password will do a lot, but encryption using WEP, WPA, or WPA2 will help a lot more. They also go into the security issues of public hotspots, including the prospect of “Evil Twins” (user computers that offer a look-alike access point just to steal your personal information).
The book wraps up with a chapter on “Privacy and the Internet.” Anyone who conducts any transactions over the Internet has their personal data stored on a computer that might be accessed online. The key precaution is to not divulge any information you don’t absolutely have to. Data Brokers collect amazing amounts of information on each of us. Three major companies, Acxiom, ChoicePoint and LexisNexis are individually described, with information on how to get reports on what information they’ve recorded, and possibly how to opt-out of having it stored.
Andrew Conry-Murray and Vincent Weafer conclude the book by giving the reader five basic steps to protect themselves online. However, I prefer their final, single simple rule: Use Your Common Sense.
The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security, though a slim book, is packed with a lot of valuable information pitched to the non-technical user. I believe that anyone with a computer connected to the Internet would benefit from reading this book.
You can purchase The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.
The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security
Oxymoron?
This is incomplete.
Whats a BOFH to do?
There are many ways to secure yourself, and one of the easiest is to use an operating system that doesn't fill a huge percentage of the market.
I'm not a blind Mac Fanboy, but I have sight enough to see Apple offers computers that are more than sufficient for average home use. The flaws they had have disappeared. Admittedly, Windows has its place as well. I still keep a Windows box for gaming, I use Windows at work, and I troubleshoot it for friends and family who haven't made the switch.
But, for me, security is no longer a chore.
If I only had a moose...
Dude, those cheat sheets are all over the web. Or, you could always hit up a forum and ask nicely (that's how most of us learned what we know).
If you really want, post a JE. Plenty of us here with nothing better to do than help a brother out.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Buy our stuff.
(Apologies for the title to the Bishop in "Spaceballs")
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
NO, book on security, technology, etc, that is anything more than a couple of pages long is going to interest is going to be anything Joe SixPack buys and reads to teach themselves what they need to know. Joe SixPack or my grandmother is not interested in knowing or learning about the technology, they just want it to work.
Just like driving a car, they don't care how it works, just how to use it and that they need to take it in for maintenance at regular intervals. Joe SixPack or my grandmother should take their computer in for maintenance or have someone competent set it up and that competent person create a "dummy guide" of make sure your subscriptions to anti-virus, anti-spyware (or setting them up on Ubuntu), etc are up to date and click here for help and do this if this happens. If anything else happens call someone for help.
Dell and others are helping nobody by including trial versions of "anti-virus" programs. I can't even count the number of times those trials have expired and the people haven't gotten virus definition updates for 6+ months.
Personal firewalls suck, it has been proven that they usually can be penetrated from both sides.
They also confuse the user and teach him to "click accept or nothing will work", which is barely something you want your user to do.
It's a much more sensible advise to tell your user to turn off unnessesary services, especially since there are now simple applications which do that work for you.
http://www.dingens.org/index.html.en
Non-technical users don't want to read a book. That's why they are non-technical and that's why they give Symantec money to ostensibly keep them safe.
There. My 2 cents are deposited.
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Now, some people really need to use it, if they have more than one computer in the house. And there was no mention of protecting yourself from attacks coming from the Internet.
Simply irresponsible, I say, and by rights the ISP ought to be liable for it.
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...can you remove it from your bookshelf without sending all of the other books aflame, and causing the shelf itself to collapse into shavings?
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"a slim 240 pages"
That's the whole problem. If we need that much space to explain people how to be online without being owned, 90% of 'em won't read it, and will get owned.
Until we've solved that problem - and it's not a technological one, there is no geeky solution here - there is no real security for the average computer user.
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The first rule of Symantec Home Internet Security, is don't install Symantec Home Internet Security.
The book was published in September of 2005. So don't expect much of anything to be current.
I was wondering why there wasn't any mention of Vista in the review.
In 1990, he sold his company to Symantec. Since then, their products have been gradually rebranded and have consistently sucked. Symantec seem under the delusion that their brand is now worth what the Norton brand was worth in the '80s (which, if you ignore inflation, it might be...).
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
When I looked at the title of this /. article, I read "The Symantec Guide to Homeland Security." Given how Homeland Security has performed since its inception, it sounded very believable that Symantec would be writing a guide to it.
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Yes, I'd definitely like to know how well Macs are covered. If all the book does is list PC-only security apps, it doesn't do me much good.
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Nice review. No idea why you posted it here though. Maybe because some of us have clueless relatives and being able to hand them a relatively simple (and authoritative in their eyes) book to read, rather then spend 3 hours trying to pound common sense into their heads is an attractive concept. Yes pretty much everyone on slashdot knows all this stuff, and further knows how to research anything we don't know, but trying to impart that information to others is often a trying experience, particularly in the case of relatives that often as not are not particularly inclined to listen to someone they don't view as an authority figure. We know Symantec is crap, but for a large portion of the population it's what they think of when they think about AV and Firewall software, and recommendations coming from them will most likely be given more thought and consideration then the same coming from "that one cousin that's into that computer stuff".
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
As an experienced IT professional, I'm comfortable setting up WPA2-PSK (AES) on my laptops, desktops, and other wireless bits like my Wii and Smartphone.
But for the average schmuck who just stolled home with a new "link-sees" wireless box and new wireless laptop 'puter - they won't bother setting up security, they'll stop when the lights are blinkin' and the porn is streaming.
AOSS seems to be the way to go if more manufactures supported it. Push a button on the access point, and it goes into training mode for 60 seconds. Push a button in the AOSS client program on the device and the two setup a nice encrypted connection without nary a password prompt or "WEP, WPA, or WPA2?" question.
"Security for Absolute Idiots" is what we need... or just disconnect those dumbasses from the internet.
Symantec is crapware. It's not much better then a lot of the spyware floating around the internet, a certain competes with it for annoying popups and resource hogging. That being said, the reason you should listen to what this book has to say, is because a fellow slashdot reader read it and says they did a good job. The review however points out that this isn't a book for the likes of your typical slashdot reader, but rather one that you might want to pick up so next time an annoying relative asks you a question about internet security, you can lob this book at their head and hopefully get back to doing something useful.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
Today, in a bold move, Symantec Inc. has re-branded their renowned Internet Security software package. "Our research shows that customers relate better with hybrid names and acronyms." Said a Symantec representative. "We feel that our new product, Symantec InSecurity captures the uneasiness customers have with our product and the internet in general."
And good luck trying to convince someone to read that. I don't know why, but it's often easier to talk someone into reading a book about something then it is to get them to go to a website about it. Another factor is how well laid out the information on about.com is. Will the person doing the research have to know to search for certain terms? Is there a single "page" with links to all the information provided, or is it divided up into different sections. If it's not all available without having to do any searching at all, that's often a deal breaker with the technically inept.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
Having tried this firewall for myself when I eventually got XP (before going on to Linux), is that their new firewall was the fastest way to get my brand new clean install of WinXP on a dual core computer to it's knees in it's speed of use. I did another clean install just to get the speed of a dual core machine back, the computer ran like it was on a 486 with that firewall. Wasted my money.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
Or you know, you could configure your browser to be secure (easier in some browsers than others), and just not run any crap you download from said sites (including installing strange codecs).
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
We know Symantec is crap
That may be true for values of "we" that are Windows power users, but what about those of us whose solution to avoiding Windows viruses is "open all files in a different OS"? We've got clueless relatives to support too, you know, and that's hard when we're equally clueless. My dad's job requires him to open Office documents from "high virus risk" senders (so a book that educated him alone would be insufficient), yet the Norton virus scan on those documents is so slow that he's looking at upgrading the (otherwise still speedy) computer. Surely "we" know more than "Symantec is crap" - could that perhaps be elaborated to "Symantec is crap; Office hasn't been susceptible to macroviruses since 200X" or "Symantec is crap; Antivirus software Y won't bog down your computer"?
I've been using Kaspersky as my anti-virus, and while it's usually rated as one of the most effective, it's gotten really annoying. At first it was just the hundreds of megs of log-files, though I've mostly limited those. But some time in the last six months, its virus tables added some pattern that's in most of my Eudora mailfile backups, and it'll tell me file names but not position in the file. AFAICT, I received some email that either contained a virus or contained a string that Kaspersky thinks looks like a virus signature, and either it's still there or (more likely) I deleted it but hadn't compressed the mailbox file to get rid of it at the time I did the backups. I've cleaned up a few instances of this, but there's some I just can't find sigh.
Bill Stewart
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I'm not entirely certain I'm following you here, but I think you're asking for elaboration on why Symantec is crap and/or a recommendation for non-crap AV. If that is in fact what you're asking, then first of all Symantec is crap because it's an absolute hog and your system might actually perform better if you un-installed Symantec and installed the spyware instead. Second I can recommend three AV solutions, one of them free for home use, and the other two requiring paid subscriptions. First there's Avast which is free for personal use and generally does a decent job, but may not be up to the task of protecting a computer that has to open a lot of files from "high virus risk" senders as you put it. Second is AVG which is usually reviewed as one of the top recommended AV products out there, and generally finishes at the top of the pack in any AV software benchmarks. Last up is a little known one called NOD32 which was recently rolled into a bundle called ESET SmartSecurity by it's manufacturer. NOD32 is nearly always the best rated AV product for detection of viruses, and is probably the best bet for a high risk environment. Any of those three should do a better job then Symantec, although the last two may work out better then Avast. For a home user, I'd recommend Avast any day, but for commercial environments, either AVG or NOD32 are probably a better choice.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
More important, though, is having an external firewall that keeps the riff-raff attacks off your computer, at least long enough for you to download Windows updates and anti-virus updates to a new computer. Typical Windows XP computers without them tend to get owned before they have time to get their updates in place, and by keeping out some of the noise, they also reduce load on the computer's operating system. While NAT is overall an abomination that breaks the Internet End-to-End Model, it does at least block some kinds of attacks, and makes it harder for computers that do get owned to send out packets with forged source addresses.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
I think you're asking for elaboration on why Symantec is crap and/or a recommendation for non-crap AV.
Well, I was hoping to be informed that Microsoft had eventually figured out not to run unsandboxed executable content in a document editor, thus making anti-virus scans of Office files unnecessary, but "a recommendation for non-crap AV" is almost as good. Thank you very much.
Chapter One: The Computer
The "computer" is the rectangular box with a few buttons on the front. The "monitor" is the box with the pretty pictures. These two terms are not interchangeable.
Chapter Two: The Internets
Also known as the "web", this is where porn comes from.
Chapter Three: Computer Security
Both the computer and the Internets are very dangerous - Terrorists use both. To keep your computer absolutely secure, DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING, EVER.
THE END
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
Funny, then, that their next appearance is to pop up with a review of an out-of-date book from about that same time, but submitted last Tuesday...
What part of "a well regulated militia" do you not understand?
Regina: Is Blu-Ray a carb?
Cady: YES.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Symantec puts 'hooks' in every part of the Windows system. :(
Almost nothing happens in Windows without Symantec knowing about it.
This causes a massive load on the system, to the point that a 256mb laptop running XP will go so slowly, thrashing its HD, that it is not worth operating. No Symantec and it works fine. (ermm... not my laptop).
Another thing is Symantec demands almost daily updates of ridiculous file sizes, often 20+mb or more through its Live Update service. This is a real pain, especially on a slow connection and the nag screens never seem to stop.
The last thing is that it uses a form of html for its gui. This is very fragile and often breaks, rendering the software useless. Reinstalling it means removal, and some versions demand a password for removal, then reinstall, then update (again).
It often breaks itself because the live update can update the modules either in the wrong order, or the wrong versions.
Typical Symantec remedy for this is to 'continue to update' to fix.
Some hackers have found a way to intentionally break Symantec for you - free of charge, so malware can bypass any of its scanning routines. Clever ones even convince it that the file is ok even when it's not.
So the ideal scanner should have a small footprint, incremental downloads, check for all forms of malware (unlike Symantec, Trend, McAffe and most U.S. AV software that requires different modules)and basically stay out of the way. Some of these 'big name' providers even nag you about windows updates, as if Windows doesn't do a good enough job in the first place!
There is nothing wrong with Windows firewall. Its built in and works, so why replace it?
Avast, AVG, NOD are great products, small footprints and although they do drain the system (as any AV does), its nowhere near the demand that Symantec causes.
If you have to use it, then only use the AV part and leave the rest alone.
If you know what you're doing, you can even run without an AV live, and scan daily before a planned shutdown. but you need discipline to do that effectively.
Symantec has even caused a marriage breakup that I know about. Mind you they were prolly gonna split anyway, but the wife was convinced that her ex was spying on her, since Symantec kept reporting attempted firewall intrusions and tracking cookies which were false positives.
I hope that someone from Symantec reads this and tries to defend their product. I doubt if they can.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
yeah lets put an elefant in our place so there will be just enough room for us, this way noone else gets in. and he'll shit inside, eat our food and slow life down in general... Symantec? why are they still in clogging up business? maybe because of pre-installation just like Msoft?
Dont Judge The situation by the Misfortunate. Goga.
Anything relying on the home user doing or not doing something is bound to fail. Click here to have all your bank account details sent to the Russian mafia and your computer reduced to a doorstop.
davecb5620@gmail.com
'Fraudsters .. are distinguished from hijackers who compromise your machine for local data or to make it part of a "bot farm"'
.. discusses the basics of Internet Protocol (IP), and what firewalls can and can't do"
.. "Use a firewall" and "Don't Open Strange E-Mail")'
..
Would this machine be a Microsoft Windows machine or any other kind of 'computer'?
"Chapter 3
Does it say they don't work, especially the software ones. They are ineffectual as things like RPC over HTTP and SOAP are designed to - bypass the firewall.
'The following two chapters cover the various forms of "malware" (viruses, worms, adware, spyware, and Trojans)
What OS does this malware predominatly run on, give examples. Does Symantec say how to tell if an email is 'strange' without opening it. Wouldn't you have to be psychic?
"The authors state that for most people "spam is an annoyance rather than a plague"
A hundred spam emails a day isn't an annoyance. Why the f*** in 2008 can't you innovators design an email system that provides security, identity and protects against viruses/spam/malware, come on, where is it?
"The thinking is that Firefox and Opera will be more secure because fewer exploits are targeted towards them"
No, the thinking is that they are more secure because they don't use activeX and they aren't welded to the OS like IExplorer.
'I believe that anyone with a computer connected to the Internet would benefit from reading this book'
Since when did Microsoft Windows become synonymous with 'a computer'. A better advice would be to upgrade to a real 'computer' like a Mac or Linux. If you must do online transactions use the Knoppix CD and reboot after each online transaction. Finally my advice garnered from years of experience, if you want to stay safe online and you have to use Windows is:
don't use Internet Explorer
don't use Outlook Express
don't use msOffice
davecb5620@gmail.com
Maybe they're a really slow reader?
Seriously though, even if you don't trust the recommendation of this user, the book seems to have gotten fairly good reviews over on amazon as well.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
Securing a computer? That's easy, just follow these small steps. 1.) Uninstall Symantec 2.) Install Kaspersky 3.) Get a firewall 4.) Stay away from the Geeksquad. 5.) STOP SURFING PORN!
My interest in the reviewer was more like "A poster who hasn't commented in 2 years gets a review of a 2 year old book posted on the front page? How bizarre. Oh well, at least it isn't a dupe!"
Honestly, when I started looking I expected to find that it'd been sitting in the submission queue since 2005, not last Tuesday...Most likely it's taken this long for his PC to boot after installing Norton's...
What part of "a well regulated militia" do you not understand?