Aycock begins Chapter 1 with: ”Most of us don’t parade around nude”. Although he is using an
analogy here to open the discussion of privacy, his apparently relaxed approach makes this book
open to a larger audience base than the ”usual” technology books in print today. Point in fact,
Aycock’s style throughout this work his would allow for an audience ranging from a high-school
aged computer novice to an experienced computer science professor. In summary, Spyware and
Adware is a well-written book that stays on focus and presents the reader with easy-to-understand
explanations of each of the sub-topics. As someone who has worked network security for almost 15
years, I still found this book to be educational and accurate and I would recommend it to anyone
who has even a slight interest in the topics of adware and spyware.