"If this book had a soundtrack, it’d be Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side." — InfoWorld

Is your computer safe from computer viruses and malicious hackers? No matter how secure you think your computer is, it's still vulnerable to a variety of attacks that can ruin your files or hoodwink you out of thousands of dollars.

This newly revised third edition to the best-selling Steal This Computer Book will help you protect yourself. You'll discover:

• How to tackle spyware, web bugs, and adware - seemingly innocent programs that harvest your private information.
• How black hat hackers hide their identities and shred their files
• How black hat hackers write computer viruses and worms
• How Trojan Horse programs work and how to defend against them
• How black hat hackers steal software and defeat copy protection mechanisms
• How to fight back against spammers
• How to tell when your machine is being attacked and what you can do to protect it.
• Where the black hat hackers are, how they probe a target and sneak into a computer, and what they do when they are there.

Best selling computer book author Wallace Wang is a former contributor to Boardwatch magazine, where he wrote a monthly column called 'Notes from the Underground'. He is also a successful stand-up comic who has appeared on A&E's 'Evening at the Improv' and appears regularly at the Riviera comedy club in Las Vegas.