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Untangle Network Security

By : Abd El Monem A Mohamed El Bawab
Book Image

Untangle Network Security

By: Abd El Monem A Mohamed El Bawab

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Untangle Network Security
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Utilizing Untangle Ad Blocker


How many times have you been working on important things and been interrupted by a pop-up advertisement? How many times have you been searching for information and got lost because of the number of advertisements that the web page contains?

Have you heard about the possibility of advertisement to download malwares to your computer without even running it? (More info at http://www.tomsguide.com/us/malware-infested-ads,news-19408.html.)

How many times you have searched for something, and found that every website you visit after that search will contain advertisements related to that search? Privacy issues, right?

What if I told you that your input into website order forms, registration pages, payment pages, and other online forms are stored on your device on cookies and there is malware specialized in stealing those cookies? (A good read for you to start with is available at http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046968/attackers-use-ramnit-malware-to-target-steam-users...