- What is a Signature?
A dedicated team of analyst at Tenebril's Spyware Research Center develops and maintains an extensive database of malicious files that are gathered from many sources. Signatures are created for these files, which allow them to be uniquely identifiable. Applications on your PC are compared against...
- What is a Host file?
[The following is taken from the Anti-Spyware Coalition glossary]
A file, stored on the user's computer, used to look up the Internet Protocol address of a device connected to a computer network. Some spyware has been known to change a host file in order to redirect users from a site that they...
- What is spyware?
[The following is taken from the Anti-Spyware Coalition glossary]
The term Spyware has been used in two ways.
In its narrow sense, Spyware is a term for Tracking Software deployed without adequate notice, consent, or control for the user. In its broader sense, Spyware is used as a synonym...
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