Archive for the 'Security' Category

Even today, when spyware threat becomes more and more frightening, most computer users simply do not know how to avoid spyware infections. The web is filled with different anti-spyware sites, Internet privacy resources and various security centers. There are many spyware removal applications that can be purchased online. However, the Internet lacks information and tips […]

An old proverb says that forbidden fruit is the sweetest. It is in the people’s nature. Facile and ordinary things do not bring as much delight as something completely new, mysterious and hardly reachable can offer. People always strived for forbidden pleasure. However, it never was so easy to take than now. The Internet is […]

Everyone knows that a computer without software is just a useless pile of metal. Needless to say that software must be purchased as any other product. The time when a personal computer was an expensive pipe-dream has passed irreversibly. Today equipping the system with all necessary programs costs much more than a PC itself. Naturally […]

Every program is a set of certain files. To start the program you run an executable file that loads the entire program or some of its components. When you launch an executable, part of its code is being loaded into computer memory. This code have the process name. It allows the system to run the […]

Complex parasites often use dynamically linked library files (DLLs) that contain code responsible for implementing certain harmful functions and required by threats to work as intended. Many browser hijackers and browser plugins consist only from DLL files, which are registered in the system and sometimes can be injected into some safe essential system services, so […]

Often spyware and other parasites change default system behavior in order to obstruct their manual removal or make it virtually impossible. Even if the user knows what files or registry entries must be removed, what processes should be terminated or what dynamic libraries need to be unregistered, he can be unable to manually remove the […]

On June 30, 2005 Wall Street Journal and New York Times separately reported that according to information received from reliable sources within Microsoft, the latter for more than two weeks has been in talks to buy the biggest advertising company Claria, formerly known as Gator. Claria develops a variety of adware programs such as GAIN […]

For many of us a web browser is the most necessary program. Every day we need it at work and at leisure to read news or find required information. Of course, nobody wants that the most used software would be the most vulnerable. A browser is our window to the Internet - huge, but extremly […]

Obviously, there is no need to argue that Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system and Internet Explorer browser included in the OS distribution is the most popular program used to access the web. Some of us do not like this, but it’s the fact that should be regarded. More and more people gets […]

Infamous spyware parasites that nowadays spread with an incredible rate actually didn’t appear long time ago. Until 1999-2000 nobody knew anything about them. But only five years passed and now spyware is installed on more than 80% of world computers. The number of PCs obsessed with spyware is a way more higher than the total […]