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Privacy Software Applications

 About Zone Alarm     The Pratice Activity  If This is for a class or professional growth program      Suggested Grading

BACKGROUND on this topic
Increasing, with Internet-based file sharing, it is feasible that intruders may try to enter your computer's hard drive.  There are certainly stories about such privacy invasions cited in the popular press. The stories range from identify theft and also file theft or distruction on someone's hard drive.  Obviously, companies are concerned about the security of data stored on their computers, but you, as an individual, should also be as alert and wary about the prviacy of your computer files as you are about your wallet that contains credit cards, etc.  For this reason, we have included a software application in this course that is intended to help you protect your valuables on your computer and let you know when someone is trying to enter your harddrive. Here's an article by Dr. Anna C. McFadden (Dr. MAC) on our faculty, explaining why ZONE ALARM or something like it is important to have.

Zone Alarm
There are several programs that will alert you to possible requests for information from your computer hard drive, but we have chosen to use ZONE ALARM for this class.

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* ZoneAlarm is free for individual and not-for-profit charitable entity use (excluding governmental entities and educational institutions). For-profit business entities, governmental entities, or educational institutions, your license will be free for an introductory sixty (60) day period but you must purchase a valid end-user license after 60 days in order to continue using the software.
Specific Assignment:
1.If you have a prviacy protection program on your computer, take a screeen capture fand send as an attachment in email.
                                                                                             
**Zone Alarm should show up as an icon along the bottom of your screen; here's the one at the bottom of my screen .  
You can also click on Start, Select/open PROGRAMS on your computer desktop and show me that you have ZONE ALARM (or some other program you discussed with me) loaded. Here's how my desktop looks, showing ZONE ALARM.

This shows that it is loaded on my computer!

 
2. If you don't have a computer or your computer doesn't have a privacy protection program loaded on your computer, ask your network manager or
   tech specialist and ask them to tell you what privacy protection program your school computers have and send the name of the progran in an email.

Suggested GRADING CRITERIA, if you are using this for professional development or a course.  This is just a suggestion if this is being used as part of a course or professional growth activity. It is also suggested that there be 'an assignment' mailbox for such activities
 

TURNING IN THE PRODUCT
1.    Send an email to the assignment mailbox for your section of the class or your supervisor in your professional growth program.
2.  Attach as a .gif  or .jpg file some WINCOPY screen capture that shows your Zone Alarm program loaded on your computer!  BE SURE THAT YOU SAVE YOUR WINCOPY SCREEN CAPTURE AS A .jpg or .gif. NO .bmp files!
3.  SUBJECT LINE:  Zone Alarm

GRADING   10 points
This product will be graded using the following criteria.