Type of Spyware
- Adware : Show you ads customized to your taste via pop-up
Adware is intended for tracking people web surfing habit and
customized ads and popup based on the web surfing habit.
- Snoopware : Watch your activity on behalf of someone else
Snoopware is intended to watch what a user is doing on the internet. Parental control is an example of snoopware. Furthermore, an employer can install snoopware to spy on employees to see what they are doing.
- Browser Hijackers : Set your homepage to one of their choosing
Browser Hijackers is intended to set the user internet browsers home page to a site that the author of the browser hijackers get paid for pointing to an affiliated site.
- Key Loggers : Capture keystrokes
Key Loggers is intended to capture all keystrokes and gave the key loggers the ability to access the computer and fetch the log file containing the keystrokes.
- Dialers : Programs that initialize a computer's modem and call out silently to a toll line and connect to a web page.
Dialer is intended to rack you up with huge phone bill by making long distance calls. These day, since most people are using broadband internet, dialer is not a big issue.
- Trojan Horses : Aka backdoor Trojan. Open an electronic backdoor for intruder
Trojan horse is intended to install a malicious software that open an electronic backdoor to allow malicious intruder to connect remotely to the computer over the Internet.
- Cookies : Tiny text file store on the computer to help track your movements through their pages.
Cookies are only accessible by the site that place the cookies. If you visited other website, that website can't access the cookies place by other site. Online shopping site are notorious for cookies because they want to track every movement that their shopper make so that they can better try to sell something you might like. If you like, you can always configure your browser not to accept cookies or delete the cookies. FYI: Some site require that you enable cookies for you to access their site. Furthermore, cookies allows a website to know who you are the next time you revisited the site. It will remember what information you enter before.
Click on the following link to delete cookies and block cookies