Trojan A trojan is a self-contained malicious program that does not replicate (as a worm would) nor infect other files (as a virus would). Many of the the earlier Trojans were used to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, such as those suffered by Yahoo and eBay in the latter part of 1999. Today, [...]
Why is it called “Spyware” ? While this may be a great concept, the downside is that the advertising companies also install additional tracking software on your system, which is continuously “calling home”, using your Internet connection and reports statistical data to the “mothership”. While according to the privacy policies of the companies, there will [...]
Viruses come in many shapes and sizes, such as: File infectors These viruses attach themselves to regular programs, such as COM or EXE files under DOS. Thus, they are invoked each time the infected program is run. Cluster infectors They modify the file system so that they are run prior to other programs. Note that, [...]
