Archive for the ‘ Computer Security ’ Category
Common Types of Spyware
There are a many of types spyware. Some of them function solely as spyware, while other only contain features of spyware. Some of the frequently observed spyware types and their characteristics are:
Browser session hijack:
This spyware type tries to modify the browser settings of the user. There are various ways to implement them. However, the [...]
What is a Trojan Horse?
A Trojan horse is type of malware (malicious software) like viruses, worms, rootkits, and spyware. However, unlike viruses and worms a Trojan horse is not able to create copies of itself or in tech speak, self-replicate.
If you would like to know more about the other types of malware, read the following resources. To find out [...]
Common Hardware and Software Issues
One symptom that users rely on in assessing whether or not a system is infected with malware is the overall performance of the computer. A user may experience periodic stalls, system crashes, etc. While many of these symptoms can and do reflect a system compromised by malicious software, simple hardware and software issues can lead [...]
What is an Internet Content Filter?
Internet content filters are used to prevent users on a computer from accessing websites deemed inappropriate and downloading files that may affect the security of a computer. Many Internet content filters are in place to block websites that contain pornography, hate groups, and other sensitive, and possibly illegal, activities and items. Many content filters are [...]
How Do You Identify a Spyware Infestation?
The first thing to look for is the speed of computer. If your computer takes too long to start up or shut down, then you might have a spyware problem. If this is the case, you can check the running process using the Window’s Task Manager and then observe what is using the memory and [...]
What is a SQL Injection Attack?
Users of computer systems and visitors to websites are familiar with authenticating their identity, or proving, “they are who they say they are,” by entering their Username and Password.
What actually happens when you enter text into the Username and Password fields of a login screen is that the text is usually inserted or encapsulated into [...]
How to Stop Spam
Spam is flooding inboxes, message boards, newsgroups, user comments, etc with the same message(s). The message is usually commercial advertising for quasi-legal products and services. Spam is lucrative because it costs the spammer little money to send. The brunt of the cost is borne by the recipients or carriers instead of the sender.
Email spam that [...]
