Posts Tagged ‘Spyware’

Zeus is a financial malware. It infects consumer PCs, waits for them to log onto a list of targeted banks and financial institutions, and then steals their credentials and sends them to a remote server in real time. Additionally, it may inject HTML into the pages rendered by the browser, so that ...

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If you are searching for a good free keylogger program, then just have a look at open source keylogger BFK. This is  freeware key logger application, which is light weight in load, just 1.1 MB and works just fine for all home and light uses. BFK, the acronym for Best Free Keylogger allows you to record the keyboard strokes of the computer. It just sits ...

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Keystroke logging, also known as Keylogging, is the process of recording your activities while you are working on your computer. Keylogging is almost always associated with bad intentions. But it is not always so. There are times, when keylogging is useful for watching and controlling the activities of the users. Keyloggers may be specially useful ...

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Keyloggers are tools to record the activities of computer users. They are mostly used for the purpose of stealing passwords and private information, but there are some legitimate uses also. For instance, an employer may be wanting to know about how its newly recruited employees are using their office time. ...

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Can You Run Two Antivirus Software Programs on a Single Computer? Antivirus Programs are like sniffer dogs on the prowl. They keep on looking for suspicious activities and take appropriate actions as and when find anything wrong. They generally are memory resident and provide you real time protection based upon their effectiveness and efficiency. But many of the antivirus programs clash with the functioning of other antivirus ...

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Behavior Based Detection of Malware Files and Processes Most of the real time PC security software available today are signature based. They depend upon identification of a malware, analysis of its signature, updation of the database of the security software vendor and then download of the updated signature files by the end user. This complete cycle ...

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USB Ports offer a great convenience to the computer users. In the unlikely case somebody wants to know more about USB... Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to connect devices to a host computer. USB was designed to allow many peripherals to be connected using a single standardized interface socket and to improve plug and play capabilities by allowing hot swapping; that is, ...

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Malware Infections Through AutoRun Files AutoRun, a feature of Windows Explorer (actually of the shell32 dll) introduced in Windows 95, enables media and devices to launch programs by use of commands listed in a file called autorun.inf, stored in the root directory of the medium. This feature was introduced in Windows way back during the development of Windows 95 and has been continuing ...

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Security Products from top Security Software vendors like Symantec and CA failed to clear the critical PC Security tests VB100, performed by the independent security analyst Virus Bulletin. This test is performed every month from the product submitted by different vendors for benchmarking their products against industry requirements. This month VB's test team put 35 products through ...

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Booting an infected PC externally with a bootable virus cleaner CD is always a wise option when you are thinking of a heavily infected PC. Today's intelligent malware often take control of the system as soon as they get entry into your system and try every trick in the book to make their detection difficult. In this process they often paralyze the defense of your computer ...

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