Spyware

What is Spyware? Spyware is Any Software which employs a user's Internet connection in the background without their knowledge or explicit permission. Silent background use of an Internet connection MUST BE PRECEDED by a complete and truthful disclosure of proposed backchannel usage, followed by the receipt of explicit, informed, consent for such use. ANY SOFTWARE communicating across the Internet absent these elements is guilty of information theft and is properly and rightfully termed: Spyware.


Viruses, Worms & Trojan Horses

A virus is a manmade program or piece of code that causes an unexpected, usually negative, event. Viruses are often disguised games or images with clever marketing titles such as “Me, nude.”

Computer Worms are viruses that reside in the active memory of a computer and duplicate themselves. They may send copies of themselves to other computers, such as through email or Internet Relay Chat (IRC).

A Trojan horse program is a malicious program that pretends to be a benign application; a Trojan horse program purposefully does something the user does not expect. Trojans are not viruses since they do not replicate, but Trojan horse programs can be just as destructive. Many people use the term to refer only to non-replicating malicious programs, thus making a distinction between Trojans and viruses.


System Disinfection

The problem with an infected system does not end with detection of the problem. Detection merely provides a reference point for restoring the system to its accepted functional state and, in general, more time will be invested in disinfecting it. System disinfection can be defined as 'restoring a system to an acceptable and working state'. Of course, it is possible to carry out a 'full' restoration, however, the diversity of systems and system configurations makes this very difficult. The aim of disinfection is to enable the system to work as it did in its pre-infected state, without having to perform any re-installation.


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