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What are Spyware
software and how to deal with
them?
Spyware
software are programs that install
themselves without letting the user know,
their job is to gather information so then
they can distribute it to other companies,
such as advertisement enterprises, software
selling firms or other companies which are
interested in the information. |
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Some firms that are in the
business of selling through the
Internet, with the purpose of
knowing the user�s needs buy these
information, so that way they can adequate
themselves to satisfy the users� needs.
These spy programs usually use the
Internet connection to send the
information to some recipient, this is why
while surfing in an infected PC, the speed
connection might be affected, because these
software use a great wide of the broadband.
Most of the gathered information is about
our messages, contacts and our
e-mail password; data about the
Internet connection, such as the IP
address, the DNS, the phone and the country;
frequently used web sites, the time spent in
those web sites and the amount of times the
user visits them; installed software,
downloads and any type of exchanged
information, for example in forms and web
sites, including credit card and bank
account numbers,
passwords, etc. |
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all of these is done through
the
cookie files (files that keep the
users� information and hold it in the drive,
because many people require this kind of
files for their security).
These files are mostly spread while we
surf in the Internet, through
E-mail; it can also be called by
a virus
or a
Trojan that has previously
installed itself in our PCs or can also be
brought by ourselves through software that
we consider trustworthy or useful. |
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These days, companies such as
Microsoft have proved that the expected
number of computers with affected
connections by these software are nearly
80%, and among the most popular ones you can
find:
CoolWebSearch (CWS): controls the
Explorer in a way in which the homepage and
the browser search are directed to the web
sites of those controlling the software
(usually porn web sites). |
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Gator (or Gain):
Is an
adware
that opens advertisement pop-ups in the Explorer. It is secretly
hosted in free applications, such as
Kazaa.
Internet Optimizer:
Its authors own the failure pages of the browser (the ones that
appear when you try to enter to a non-existent web page) and
redirect them to other ones under their control.
Transponder or
vx2: Comes pre-installed in certain free applications. It embeds
itself in the Explorer so it can check the visited web sites,
the user names and form data; it employs that information to
send customized publicity.
Keen Value:
is an adware which displays publicity without been required and
it might also install another kind of software. |
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The most common way of eliminating them is using
a software specialized in erasing them, such as the
Webroot (http://www.webroot.com/En_US/index.html),
which is one of the best ones, but it charges for its services.
another software recommended is the el aVG (
http://free.avg.com/ ), which
besides been free of charge, offers a real time protection,
however, many experts in the subject say that it is better to
stop using browsers such as the Internet Explorer and use other
ones such as Mozilla,
Firefox, Netscape and Opera, because those
are much less vulnerable to these type of programs.
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