Guide to Internet Safety
After reading several articles about cybercrimes, I decided to create this web page to answer basic questions about web safety.
This page is designed for partial credit for my web page design for my
Introduction to Internet class.
Symptoms of a virus infection
- computer slows down
- lots of popups
What is spam?
Spam is anonymous, unsolicited bulk email."
Source:From Virus List
What is a virus?
A virus is any type of malicious program, or is used to describe any ‘bad thing’ that a malicious program does to a host system."
Source:From Virus List
What is cyberbulling and cyberstalking? What is grooming?
Cyberbulling is the use of the Internet to harass or bully others.
Source:From Net Smartz
Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk someone.
Source:From Wikipedia
Grooming is when a person tries to ‘set up’ and ‘prepare’ another person to be the victim of sexual abuse.
Source:From Net Safe
Tips for protecting yourself from cybercrime
- Don't talk to strangers!!!
- Don't open random email.
- Don't put sexual content on the internet.
- Be careful of what information you give to people.
- Be able to separate a "friend" from a "predator".
