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Wise up to IT explores the lives of four young people and their experiences on the internet.

The videos present four situations in four stories—offering many strategies to address the issues raised.

Lauren’s Ordeal

Lauren goes to school one day and everything has changed. Her friends won’t talk to her, people laugh and point when she walks past and someone has sent her disturbing text messages. She keeps receiving vicious emails from people she doesn’t even know, people have posted lies and rumours about her on the internet and when she logs into Messenger, she has been blocked by all her friends.

Lauren is being bullied in cyberspace. This clip is Lauren’s story—what happened and how she dealt with it.

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What The?

Does this sound familiar? Your computer takes ages to load programs and open files. You’re constantly bombarded with pop-ups. Your internet settings have changed and you don’t know why. Strange things are happening to your email and online accounts.

It could be one or it could be all, but if you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, its possible that your computer has spyware—malicious software that is installed onto your computer to spy on your every move.

This guy had these problems and more…watch the clip to find out what he did to protect himself and his computer.

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Jeremy's Friend

School sucks, no one understands you and your parents don’t seem to care.

Meet Jeremy. He’s having a hard time at school, his parents are always nagging him about something and life is pretty miserable. But he can escape it all in cyberspace. He’s a great gamer with friends all over the world who understand him and all the crap going on in his life.

And then one day, he decides to meet one of his online friends. This clip tells the truth about Jeremy’s friend.

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Stalking Sarah

Sarah is a pretty active internet user. She’s a regular in chat rooms, often posts info in discussion groups and has visited a heap of websites. She meets some pretty interesting people online as well, people with similar interests…sport, music, movies and stuff like that.

So when some guy follows her through cyberspace, she’s pretty freaked out. He emails her, posts comments about her in chat rooms and has somehow found out her mobile phone number.

This clip could be about anyone.

Find out what Sarah did to protect herself.

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