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Old 03-14-2004, 03:51 AM
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Trojan Horse

Trojans are malicious programs that appear as harmless or desirable applications. Trojans are designed to cause loss or theft of computer data, and to destroy your system. Some trojans, called RATs (Remote Administration Tools), allow an attacker to gain unrestricted access of your computer whenever you are online. The attacker can perform activities such as file transfers, adding/deleting files or programs, and controlling the mouse and keyboard.

Trojans are distributed as email attachments, or they can be bundled with another software program, and some have been added to hacks tools all so know as trainers, and attach to Zip,RAR files and .dll .exe they leech onto.

System Monitor

System monitors are applications designed to monitor computer activity to various degrees. These programs can capture virtually everything you do on your computer including recording all keystrokes, emails, chat room dialogue, web sites visited, and programs run. System monitors usually run in the background so that you do not know that you are being monitored. The information gathered by the system monitor is stored on your computer in an encrypted log file for later retrieval. Some programs are capable of emailing the log files to another location.

Traditionally, system monitors had to be installed by someone with administrative access to your computer, such as a system administrator or someone that shares your computer. However, there has been a recent wave of system monitoring tools disguised as email attachments or "freeware" software products.

Adware

Adware is advertising-supported software that displays pop-up advertisements whenever the program is running. The software usually can be downloaded from the Internet for free, and it is the advertisements that create revenue for the company. Although seemingly harmless (aside from intrusiveness and annoyance of pop-up ads), adware can install components onto your computer that track personal information (including your age, sex, location, buying preferences, surfing habits, etc.) for marketing purposes.

Most advertising supported software doesn't inform you that it installs adware on your system. Adware does require initial consent from you, but in many cases the software will not function without the adware component.

Some Adware can install itself on your computer even though you decline the offer.

Adware Cookie (bad cookies types)

Cookies are pieces of information that are generated by a web server and stored on your computer for future access. Cookies were originally implemented to allow you to customize your web experience. However, some web sites now issue adware cookies, which allow multiple web sites to store and access cookies that may contain personal information (including surfing habits, user names and passwords, areas of interest, etc.), and then simultaneously share the information it contains with other web sites. This sharing of information allows marketing firms to create a user profile based on your personal information and sell it to other firms.

Adware cookies are installed and accessed without your knowledge or consent.

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Hello,

Sptbot search & destroy is a god proggy for rtemoving things, it finds stuff that norton & lavasoft ad aware don't fint, check it here http://www.safer-networking.org/

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Old 03-16-2004, 11:16 AM
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Sptbot search & destroy is a god proggy for rtemoving things, it finds stuff that norton & lavasoft ad aware don't fint, check it here http://www.safer-networking.org/

Wendy......
sorry i don't like it. i do love spysweeper sweet program take care of trojan horse to boot, and spyware, ads bad cookies.
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