The Internet is a tool that can be used for good and

evil. The Internet Dangers section highlights the

primary dangers to kids online with specific focus on
the sexual exploitation of children.
Legal Pornography

-Harmful to Minors Material - Material harmful to minors represents

nudity or sex that has prurient appeal for minors, is offensive and
unsuitable for minors, and lacks serious value for minors. This material
is often referred to as soft-core pornography.

-Indecency- Indecent material includes messages or pictures on

telephone, radio, or broadcast TV that are patently offensive
descriptions or depictions of sexual or excretory organs or activities.
This is often referred to as "sexual nudity" and "dirty words“

Ilegal Pornography

-Child Pornography
Child pornography is material that visually depicts children (real
children as well as computer-generated depictions of children) under
the age of eighteen engaged in actual or simulated sexual activity,
including lewd exhibition of the genitals.
Definition
A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer.
The term "virus" is also commonly but erroneously used to refer to other types of
malware, adware, and spyware programs that do not have the reproductive ability. A
true virus can only spread from one computer to another (in some form of executable
code) when its host is taken to the target computer; for instance because a user sent
it over a network or the Internet, or carried it on a removable medium such as a floppy
disk, CD, DVD, or USB drive. Viruses can increase their chances of spreading to other
computers by infecting files on a network file system or a file system that is accessed
by another computer.
Infection strategies
In order to replicate itself, a virus must be permitted to execute code and write to
memory. For this reason, many viruses attach themselves to executable files that may
be part of legitimate programs. If a user attempts to launch an infected program, the
virus' code may be executed simultaneously. Viruses can be divided into two types
based on their behavior when they are executed. Nonresident viruses immediately
search for other hosts that can be infected, infect those targets, and finally transfer
control to the application program they infected. Resident viruses do not search for
hosts when they are started. Instead, a resident virus loads itself into memory on
execution and transfers control to the host program. The virus stays active in the
background and infects new hosts when those files are accessed by other programs
or the operating system itself.
Posting on Facebook, MySpace and other social networks is a favorite pastime for
teens and 20somethings - and they remain a great way for families to keep in touch -
but recent headlines have yielded some caveats that have nothing to do with the usual
“predators lurk everywhere” issues. Here are five Facebook dangers your college kid or
young adult may never have thought about.

Facebook and college admissions: It's a bad idea to post dicey photos or racy prose
on social networking sites, no matter how private teens may think they are. According
to a 2008 Kaplan study, one in 10 college admissions officers routinely check out
college applicants’ Facebook and MySpace pages. And some 38% of them found posts
and pictures that reflected poorly on those prospective students. It wasn’t even
necessarily that they’d posted provocative or hard partying photos. In some cases,
students had simply written disparagingly about the campuses they toured.

Grad school and careers: Business and medical school admissions officers surf social
networking sites in even greater numbers than their undergrad brethren. So do
prospective employers, none of whom are impressed by posts that holler “Par-tay! Woo
hoo!”
•Fellow students: It’s not just admissions officers doing the surfing. Some upper
classmen at the University of Redlands were so incensed by partying comments
made by several incoming freshmen on the Redlands Facebook group site, they
showed the posts to college officials. College administrators said they called the
teens’ parents a few weeks before school began to have a little talk.
•Courtroom consequences: Unfortunate Facebook postings can have serious legal
repercussions too. One of the first things attorneys do with a new case is search
online for information about plaintiffs, defendants and witnesses alike. In one Rhode
Island case, a 20-year-old’s drunk driving accident, which severely injured another
youth, could have resulted in a relatively light stint at county jail or the considerably
more severe state prison. But, as the prosecutor in the case quickly discovered, two
weeks after the accident, while his victim was still in the hospital, the youth posted
photos on Facebook of himself at a Halloween party, prancing around in a prisoner
costume. He was sentenced to two years in state prison.
•Child pornography charges: Posting or sending photos of oneself or friends in
scanty clothing or sexually suggestive poses may be a popular pastime among the
younger set, but if any of the people posing are under 18, the practice may result in
child pornography charges. There were several such cases in 2008, including an
Ohio 15-year-old who was charged with child pornography after sending nude cell
phone images of herself to friends. At the time, officials in Licking County considered
charging recipients of those images as well. It's one thing to be charged with sending
or receiving child pornography as a minor, but those charges in adult court may carry
not only prison time, but a lifetime of registering as a sex offender.
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