A Guide to Investigating Using the Internet provides you with essential information on to use the Internet effectively. The Guide is full of useful tips and helpful techniques, and shows you how to get results.

Topics covered include: Internet addressing; Electronic mail; World Wide Web; searching for information; newsgroups; File Transfer Protocol; Internet Relay Chat; covert Internet access; encryption and hiding data.

What is the Internet?
How to Access it
Internet Addressing
How to Locate an Internet Adddress (IP)
Electronic Mail (e-mail)
The World Wide Web
Newsgroups (Usenet)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
How to Use the Internet Effectively
Problem Areas
Useful Tools and Techniques
Summary and Conclusion

DAVE DAVIS is a Detective Inspector serving with the West Midlands Police, heading a Specialist Surveillance Unit and a Computer Evidence Unit. He has investigated a range of Internet related crime, being responsible for a worldwide operation against paedophiles in 1995 and is currently advising law enforcement agencies on how to investigate computer related commercial fraud.