Know Spyware
Spyware is a program created with the purpose to spy (spy). Spyware is not a common threat, but can be very dangerous because as the name implies, spyware is threatening the privacy and can degrade the performance of a system & network.
Spyware has been rampant since 1994. At that time, a well-known spyware is Gator. Spyware is still exist till today. In line with technological developments, spyware originally intended for the advertising business. But now all has changed, used for pushing spyrware destructive purposes.
Spyware Categories
Spyware has several categories, namely:
1. Trojan / backdoor
2. Adware
3. Keylogger
4. DDoS agents (zombies)
5. Sniffer, password cracker
6. Browser Helper Object
7. Kazaa P2P example.
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