Chapter 1 Protect Your Turff

Key Vocabulary:
* Netizen: a citizen of cyberspace any person using internet to participate in online social communities.

* Malware: programing code designed to harm a computer or the data.
Some: Malware villians include:
-viruses
-worms
-trojans
-bot armies
-key stroke loggers
-spyware
-adware
-scareware
-randsome ware

* Security hole: flaw in the way program is written or makes the computer vulnerable to attack by the malware villians.

* Security patch: A fix to a program to close a known security hole.

Key Learning:
The internet has been around sense the 70's and has grown expinationally. 90% of american teens have access to internet in their homes. Which means there are more chances of down loads that has villians wanting to crash the computers. Not only can down loading things have the potencial for dangers, there is the posiblity that online preditors can inflitrate past your "secure" information, putting your fincial, personal, and even your children at risk.
How do people protect themselves? first informing their children what is appropriate to down load and what sites are ok to be on. Also buying a new computer doesn't mean that the computer is safe! It is important to get the proper security software. Most of the time people will get the security holes because they are dealing with an uneducated programmer and there are programming mistakes in general.

Application:
This is good information for children to know, because a lot of the time kids just want to download something and because it says free does't mean it is! This is good information in general for anyone, I was unware about the new computers not having good security. So I think that all people could benefit from this information on how to protect the information people put on computers.