Look Both Ways

Start with a Technology Base

You absolutely must protect your devices from attacks via spam, viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, worms, and so on, and there are plenty of books that will tell you how to do that. Although we provide a Appendix A section (see Part IV of this book) that outlines some basic tools that you will find useful, technology is not the focus of this book.

This book is intended to help you and your family be safer after those protections are in place because technical protections alone are not enough. Those protections guard against software attacks. This book will help you learn how to guard against the human predators roaming the Internet.

Think about it this way: You put protections into your home to help keep you safe from ...