spyware Archives - MultiMedia https://www.telework.ro/en/tag/spyware/ Știință și filosofie, afaceri online (web design, marketing, traduceri, cărți online, rețele sociale), artă. Știința informației (data science, business intelligence). Wed, 08 Jul 2020 18:34:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.telework.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-logostore-32x32.png spyware Archives - MultiMedia https://www.telework.ro/en/tag/spyware/ 32 32 2257885 German police uses Trojan backdoor for interceptions https://www.telework.ro/en/german-police-uses-trojan-backdoor-for-interceptions/ https://www.telework.ro/en/german-police-uses-trojan-backdoor-for-interceptions/#respond Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:13:07 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=5520 According to EDRi-member Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the German government has been using a backdoor Trojan, a spyware that can retrieve private data, and also offers a remote control for uploading and executing other arbitrary programs. CCC has reverse engineered … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/german-police-uses-trojan-backdoor-for-interceptions/feed/ 0 5520 Spyware and cookies https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-and-cookies-2/ https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-and-cookies-2/#respond Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:36:39 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=988 Anti-spyware programs often report Web advertisers’ HTTP cookies as spyware. Web sites (including advertisers) set cookies — small pieces of data rather than software—to track Web-browsing activity: for instance to maintain a “shopping cart” for an online store or to … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-and-cookies-2/feed/ 0 988 Spyware – virtual machines and security practices https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-virtual-machines-and-security-practices/ https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-virtual-machines-and-security-practices/#respond Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:15:22 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=688 Using a virtual machine (such as a pre-built Browser Appliance for VMWare Player) can inhibit infection by spyware, malware, and viruses. Virtual machines provide seperate environments, so if spyware enters the virtual environment, the host computer remains unaffected. One can … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-virtual-machines-and-security-practices/feed/ 0 64496 Anti-spyware programs https://www.telework.ro/en/anti-spyware-programs/ https://www.telework.ro/en/anti-spyware-programs/#respond Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:34:38 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=663 Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware, one of a few reliable commercial anti-spyware programs, scans the hard drive of a clean Windows XP system. Many programmers and some commercial firms have released products designed to remove or block spyware. Steve Gibson’s OptOut, mentioned above, … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/anti-spyware-programs/feed/ 0 64490 User consent and legality of spyware https://www.telework.ro/en/user-consent-and-legality-of-spyware/ https://www.telework.ro/en/user-consent-and-legality-of-spyware/#respond Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:24:47 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=644 Gaining unauthorized access to a computer is illegal, under computer crime laws such as the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Since the owners of computers infected with spyware generally claim that they never authorized the installation, a prima … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/user-consent-and-legality-of-spyware/feed/ 0 64472 Typical examples of spyware https://www.telework.ro/en/typical-examples-of-spyware/ https://www.telework.ro/en/typical-examples-of-spyware/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:30:14 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=624 A few examples of common spyware programs may serve to illustrate the diversity of behaviors found in these attacks. Caveat: As with computer viruses, researchers give names to spyware programs which frequently do not relate to any names that the … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/typical-examples-of-spyware/feed/ 1 64467 Browser exploit https://www.telework.ro/en/browser-exploit/ https://www.telework.ro/en/browser-exploit/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:18:37 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=133 A browser exploit is a short piece of code that exploits a software bug in a web browser such that the code makes the browser do something unexpected, including crash, read or write local files, propagate a virus or install … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/browser-exploit/feed/ 0 64446 Spyware and cookies https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-and-cookies/ https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-and-cookies/#respond Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:05:17 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=610 Anti-spyware programs often report Web advertisers’ HTTP cookies as spyware. Web sites (including advertisers) set cookies — small pieces of data rather than software—to track Web-browsing activity: for instance to maintain a “shopping cart” for an online store or to … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-and-cookies/feed/ 0 64454 WinFixer Technical Information https://www.telework.ro/en/winfixer-technical-information/ https://www.telework.ro/en/winfixer-technical-information/#respond Wed, 06 May 2009 20:35:17 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=409 WinFixer is closely related to Aurora Network’s Nail.exe hijacker/spyware program. In worst case scenarios, it may embed itself in Internet Explorer and become part of the program, thus being nearly impossible to remove. The program is also closely related to … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/winfixer-technical-information/feed/ 0 64447 Spyware – Identity theft and fraud https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-identity-theft-and-fraud/ https://www.telework.ro/en/spyware-identity-theft-and-fraud/#respond Tue, 05 May 2009 21:15:48 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=397 One case has closely associated spyware with identity theft. [1] In August 2005, researchers from security software firm Sunbelt Software believed that the makers of the common CoolWebSearch spyware had used it to transmit “chat sessions, user names, passwords, bank … Read More

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