BRIEF ABOUT SOME MALICIOUS TOOLS

Spyware

Spyware often gets installed together with “regular” software by irresponsible companies that think they can get away with it. Other spyware is installed by hackers. It collects and transmits information about you for advertising, marketing or even criminal purposes.




Adware

Adware displays advertising. All over the place. Being infested with adware is like having lice in your computer,

it’s annoying all the time and really difficult to get rid of.




Hijackers

These pests hijack your browser, displaying web pages that you don’t want to see and installing annoying “advertising bars” in your browser.




Tracking Cookies

Cookies are generally harmless, but these ones can track everything you do on the net and report it to advertisers or worse.




Hidden Dialers

These evil programs can cost you thousands of dollars by making you access the Internet via a premium-rate number instead of your regular provider.




Worms

The program prevents malicious software from distributing email in your name with viruses and other malware in attachments.




Key Loggers

How do you feel about programs that record and transmit every keystroke you make, with all your personal secrets and credit card details? Not nice? Not nice! So get rid of them!




Trojan Horses

A Trojan Horse or “Trojan” is a hidden program that doesn’t do any damage directly. But it enables hackers to control your computer over the Internet and do practically anything they want – activate your webcam, send spam, attack other computers, use your banking software…all in your name.