Articles of category "Malicious software"

We all are familiar with the legendary story of Troy where the Greeks gifted the people of troy with a Trojan horse as a sign of peace but they did not know that the huge wooden piece of horse given to them was actually a plot to transfer Greek’s best soldier into the city of Troy to defeat them. The name trojan horse given to a malicious software on the internet says for itself. Trojan horse, a malware that seems to the user as a useful data but really its useless. An internet user can get trojan while just being connected to the internet which is quite unsafe.

Millions of online matchmaking websites are irresistible to single people that it makes them forget to keep themselves safe from malicious malwares. Malware which are also known as malicious software spreads in your computer really fast to make your life suck. The malware that are usually found on these online matchmaking sites is a wabbit. It’s called a wabbit due to the fast way it spreads itself in a computer with staying unnoticed by the user, making your computer slow or impossible to use.

Millions of people every year buy a computer to gain access to the internet. This is a good thing because the internet it filled with lots of information that can be used to better our lives. Of course, with the use of such a great power (like the internet) there is always a downfall. When speaking of the internet, this downfall would be malicious software (also know as malware). One of the worse types of malware programs out there is exploit software. The danger of exploit software is great, and is something we have to be on the look out for.

Millions of people use the internet everyday, and if you are not using a DSL line (sometimes refer to as a broadband connection), then you more than likely have to connect by way of a dialer. Besides dialers being slower than a broadband connection, there is really no problem in using them. However, there are some malicious software programs (malware) that only effected people that use the dialers and not DSL. If you do get infected by one of these types of dialers, they can be identified.

Would it scare you, if there was a malicious software program (malware) that could capture your keystrokes that you used on your computer? What kind of information do you think people could find out about you, if they could read your keystrokes among other things? Well the bad news is, there is such a program, and it is out there right now. Of course, key loggers are not always bad, they can be used for good things too, but in the wrong hands they could cause bad trouble. There are ways that you can prevent key loggers from getting on your computer and recording your information.

It is no secret to users of the internet that there are people out there that create malicious software. Any program that is developed to cause harm to a computer or network of computers is known as malicious software. One form of this type of software, would be known as a Trojan Horse. In my opinion, a Trojan Horse is one of the worst types of malicious software that you can get to date. This is because, most of the time when you get infected by one of these programs, you will not even realize that it has happened.

There are many different types of malicious software out there that you need to look out for. When talking about malicious software, there are three big categories that they fall under. These categories are viruses, worms, and wabbits. All these are bad, but today I am going to tell you about wabbits and what they do and how they work. You can get wabbit software online and many seem to get in while using matchmaking sites.

Today, spyware is rampant on the internet. Spyware is the software that once installed on your system tracks your activities and sends them back to a central server, usually for the purposes of market research (targeted pop up ads etc. . . ), but sometimes for more malicious purposes. Regardless of the purpose, spyware both invades your privacy and slows your system down, and it is important that all users take steps to prevent it.

There are many different kinds of malicious software circulating on the internet, and a user who doesn't protect themselves will find that it is only a matter of time until he or she becomes infected by a computer virus. One of the most clever and sinister types of viruses out there is the Trojan virus, which poses as a legitimate piece of software in order to infect the PC.

A keylogger is a type of malicious software that can infect the victim's system and keep a log of keystrokes made on the user's keyboard. The primary purpose of a keylogger is to track these keystrokes in the hopes of coming across a user's credit card number or password or other important information and then sending those numbers back to the person profiting from the keylogger.

The internet dictates that, technically, every machine connected is accessible to every other machine on the network. As more computers become connected to the internet every day, it becomes more and more common for malicious computer viruses to spread. One of the more common problems for online computer users in recent years has been the Trojan dialer, in which a piece of seemingly innocent looking software when installed on your system makes long distance calls and connection from the computers attached modem.

As computer connectivity and technology has increased, so have computer viruses. With so many computers constantly connected and communicating with each other on the internet, viruses have started to spread rapidly. A newer type of virus that has become common on the internet, particularly with email, are worms, which have caused much havoc, especially with office networks, in recent years.

The backdoor Trojan is a program that allows hackers access to others' computers. The threat to a user is very great, because the backdoor allows valuable data and passwords to be easily viewed and recorded by the hacker. Because it is subtle and deeply imbedded into the victim's system, the backdoor Trojan is difficult to detect and even more difficult to remove.

Of all the tricks a hacker has at his disposal the exploit is one of the most cunning. An exploit is a piece of software that finds and takes advantage of glitches in other people's software. Finding these glitches allows a hacker to manipulate the user's computer in ways he previously could not have done. It is possible to remove the exploit using a patch, usually made available by the company who released the original software.

A favorite hacktool, rootkit, poses a huge threat to computer users. This Trojan program helps hackers to hide the fact that they have gained access to someone's system and the files stored within it. The Trojan hides itself deep within the operating system, masquerading as a working part of the OS, making it difficult to detect and almost impossible to remove.