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What is Spyware?
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Viruses and Worms
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What is Spam?
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Child Safety Online
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"Only On The Web:" Harvard Law professor and internet authority Jonathan Zittrin worries that computer bugs might be the technology's downfall.
March 29, 2009
30 Percent Infected? | 1:17
"Only On The Web:" Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrin has written a book about the future of the internet and thinks more people have bugs in their computers than might suspect.
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The Internet Is Infected | 13:08 | March 29, 2009
Lesley Stahl reports on computer viruses that propagate on the Internet and infect PCs, which enable their creators ? often called "cyber gangs" ? to learn the information they need to electronically rob bank accounts.
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Video for the "Clean Up Now" page
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Descriptions of Malware: |
- Adware
Adware (or spyware) is a small program that is designed to show advertisements (in various form and degrees of intrusiveness)
on your computer. It often reports personal information back to its owners. As a result your sense of privacy can be
violated.
- Backdoor
A backdoor is a small malicious program that is used to gain access to a computer by bypassing the computer access security
mechanisms. It gives the attacker almost unlimited rights. While it can be used to spy on a user, it is mainly used to install
other malware on the system.
- Heuristic
A technique designed to detect malware by empirical means but without having the specific data.
- Malware
A generic name for all types of malicious programs: adware, backdoors, rogues, trojans, viruses and worms.
- Rogue
A rogue program is a malicious program that is disguised, for instance, as trustworthy anti-spyware programs or registry cleaners.
But these programs are only put on the market to scare you into buying these programs because they make exaggerated claims about
the safety of your computer or, worse still, give erroneous scan results or put their own malware in your system.
- Trojan
A trojan (or Trojan horse) is a small malicious program that pretends to have a particular function, but that only shows its
real purpose after execution and that purpose is often destructive. Trojans cannot multiply themselves, which differentiates them
from viruses and worms.
- Virus
A virus is a small malicious program that multiplies and is capable to attach itself to other programs after being executed. It
then causes an infection and causes various degrees of damage to your computer.
- Worm
A worm is often characterized as a malicious application that will use a host machine to infect other machines. Therefore
worms can create enormous damage on networks with multiple computers.
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