Anti virus

Anti virus

Software applications for preventing, detecting, and removing malware, including computer viruses, worms, and trojan horses.

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dialer

Software; Anti virus

Dialers are programs that use a system, without your permission or knowledge, to dial out through the Internet to a 900 number or FTP site, typically to accrue charges.

A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is an attack specifically designed to prevent the normal functioning of a system and thereby to prevent lawful access to the system by authorized users. Hackers can ...

default password

Software; Anti virus

A default password is the password on a system when it is first delivered or installed.

cyber criminals

Software; Anti virus

Cyber criminals are hackers, crackers, and other malicious users that use the Internet to commit crimes such as identity theft, PC hijacking, illegal spamming, phishing and pharming, and other types ...

cyber gangs

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Cyber gangs are groups of hackers, crackers, and other cyber criminals that pool their resources to commit crimes on the Internet. Organized crime is often involved in cyber gang activity. Also see: ...

crimeware

Software; Anti virus

Crimeware is malicious software such as viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, deceptive scripts, and other programs used to commit crimes on the Internet including identity theft and fraud. Also see: ...

cookie

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Cookies are blocks of text placed in a file on your computer's hard disk. Web sites use cookies to identify users who revisit their site. Cookies might contain login or registration information, ...