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Dr. Keen
Cyber Defender & Diagnostics Lab Technician
Dr. Keen is in charge of Diagnostics and has the equipment and knowledge to fix most computer related problems.
Abandoned by her computer hacker parents when she was a child, Dr. Keen focuses on helping others overcome the attacks of cyber criminals just like her parents.
You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails
- Anonymous
French fries
Interests:Inventing, watercolor, playing fetch with Scout
Scout
Cyber Defender & Dr. Keen's robot assistant
Scout is in charge of keeping the Cyber Defense Force's security measures up-to-date. His computer brain carries fixes to most security and computer problems that can be administered at any time.
Scout is always eager to help make Cyberspace a safe and fun place.
Memory chips
Interests:Fixing computers, making antidotes for malware, playing fetch
October 6 2008
Cyber Defense Threat: Banner Ads
Banner ads are a type of online advertisement. Unlike pop-ups, banner ads are "embedded" or part of the web page. They come in a variety of sizes, but are usually a rectangular box. They can have images, text, and animations. Banner ads can look like games, have video or sound, and can even appear to float on top of the web page. They are designed to tempt you away from the site you are visiting to their company's Web site by looking fun and exciting.
Banner ads can be difficult to tell apart from the real Web page content. Sometimes they have the word "Advertisement" or "AD" on them, but it's very small and hard to see. They can be very distracting and clicking on them can take you to a Web site that you didn't really want to visit. They can also slow down your browser when you are surfing the Web.
It's best to just ignore banner ads. There are software programs you can install and settings in your Web browser to block them from appearing, but this might block the content of some multimedia Web sites as well.