This document discusses maintaining internet safety. It identifies common online threats such as phishing, malware, and cyberbullying. It then provides ways to avoid these threats, such as thinking before clicking links, avoiding unknown sites, not posting personal information, only being friends with people you know, having the latest anti-virus software installed. Finally, it has a self-test to reinforce these key points.

1. Maintaining Internet Safety
Unit 1 – Lesson 1

2. At the end of the lesson, we should be
able to:
• Discuss possible threats to safety when
surfing the Internet
• Identify possible ways of avoiding such
threats online

3. Lets start with –
“Common Online Threats”
• Phishing – this is a threat that tricks the user
into giving his or her information like username
or password.
• Malware – threat that download viruses, Trojan
horses, spyware and other harmful software
into our computers
• Cyberbullying – usually happen in social sites in
groups, chats or discussion board who would
want to say mean and hurtful things

4. How can we avoid those threats from
Internet?
• These are some practical ways to avoid;
– Think before we click.
– Leave unknown sites
– Do not post personal information
– Only be friends with the people we know
– Be careful with the people that we meet
online
– Do not talk back to cyberbullies
– Have the latest anti-virus software
installed.

5. Lets test Ourselves
• Lets complete the statements.
Choices:
Cyberbullying Malware Password Antivirus Phishing Think
1. The first rule in protecting yourself online is to _____ before you
click.
2. _____ is when user say mean and hurtful things about a person
online.
3. To protect your computer from any threat , you must install an
___ software.
4. ____ is a threat that tricks you into giving out your personal
information.
5. When your computer is infected with a virus or a Trojan horse,
you have encountered _____.