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Title	The Underground Guide to Computer Security: Slightly Askew Advice on Protecting Your PC and What's on It (Underground Guide Series)
Author(s)	Michael Alexander, Woody Leonhard
ISBN	020148918X
Language	English
Published	November 1995
Publisher	Addison-Wesley Pub Co

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
This book is intended to address the security needs of personal (or desktop) computers, and is one of the few that does. The content addresses those vulnerabilities which *do* plague workstations, and is generally free of "big iron" paranoia and concerns. Alexander's style is a bit flippant, but not at the expense of the information being conveyed. The organization is a trifle odd. (The first half of the "Safe Desktops and Laptops" chapter deals exclusively with passwords, even though few standalone machines use them. Password generators and challenge/response systems, however, are covered in the chapter on networks.) Technical details and specific suggestions do have a number of errors, particularly when dealing with MS-DOS. For those in the know, the chapter on viruses has some oddities, but nothing that would be dangerous to the user. Data security is a tedious and often confusing field. This book is only a start, but could be quite helpful to the non-specialist. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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