Types Of Spywares

Having knowledge of different types of spywares will help you to garner your skills against spyware threats, and will help you on preventing spyware infecting your computer. Following are the most popular types of spywares:

Trojan: Most of the spyware comes in the form of Trojan. Trojan is a program that appears to be useful to the user, but its actual intent is to compromise user’s confidential information or cause damage to user’s computer. There are various kinds of trojans:

Banking Trojans: This is one of the most dangerous spyware, deployed by crackers and hackers to monitor information entered by users into banking applications and banking Web forms. This spyware mostly infect through email links or attachments. Once infected, it activates itself whenever user infects his/her banking website and captures the entire user’s banking information.

Information Stealers: As the name suggests it steals passwords and other sensitive personal information to perform identity theft. It spreads through pretending to be a useful program, once downloaded it transmit user’s password and other information to the spyware originator. Masquerading as anti-spyware is one of the technique information stealers employ to infect your computer.

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Browser Hijacker: A browser hijacker (sometimes referred as hijackware) is a type of spyware program that alters user’s computer's browser settings so that they are redirected to Web sites that they had no intention of visiting.

Web Dialers: Beware dial up modem users; Web dialer dials up a long-distance telephone number - adult chat services is among of them, leaving for you large phone bills.

Keyword Logger:: A keyword logger (also reffered as Keyloggers), behavior is similar to “Information Stealer”, but they also possesses the ability to record a video or audio provided the users uses a webcam, and then transmit there (users) videos to online predators. Individual and especially children must be aware on internet threats, and must be educated on how to prevent those threats.

Adware: This spyware is used to displays pop-up ads to users on instances when they are surfing the internet or tries to open and run some program installed in their computer. These adware have the capacity to track users surfing habits and relay this information to a third party.

Spyware prevention is just one small part of the whole computer safety process. For implementing whole computer safety process read computer safety guidelines.

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