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| Computer Security 101: Free Computer Security 101 Class: Lesson 9 | |
| | Lessons | Quiz | |
 | from Tony Bradley, CISSP, your Editor and Guide Lesson 9 covers more proactive steps you can take to protect your system like running antivirus and firewall software, disabling hidden file extensions and disabling active scripting. |
| Lessons | |
| Purpose of Antivirus Software | |
| This lesson covers how antivirus software can help protect you from malicious code and why you should have it on your system. | |
| Firewalls & Hidden File Extensions | |
| An overview of how firewalls can help you keep unwanted traffic and hackers out of your network along with some other steps you can take. | |
| Browser Security and Active Scripting | |
| This lesson discusses the pros and cons of active scripting and how to configure your browser security to use active scripting where necessary while protecting yourself from malicious code. | |
| HTML Emails | |
| This last short lesson covers how to protect yourself from malicious code that can be embedded in HTML-based email messages. | |
| Quiz | |
| Lesson 9 Quiz | |
| Lesson 9 continues with more proactive and preventive steps you can take to secure your computer or network. Take this quiz to see how much you know. | |
| Tony Bradley About.com Guide for Internet / Network Security CISSP, MCSE2k, MCSA, A+ | |
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