This site contain database of the spyware and adware with descriptions.
Spyware is the software on your computer which gather some your privacy information and send it to malefactor.
Adware is the software installed in your computer and show the advertisments.
Usually spyware is installed onto your computer by two ways:
- User install it buy himself with some software. Such programs also called trojan horse
- Process is installed exploiting security flaw in users software. Usually users suffers from this type is users of Microsoft Windows, because of its popularity.
Trojan horse is the program which user installw. But program perform additional actions like stealing passwrods or any other actions not visible to user
Adware is commonly installed with some freeware of shareware programs. Good programs usually ask user's permission or notify in license agreement. But most programs just install some process, which is hidden and not specified on uninstall program page
This is not only one way of getting adware into user computer. Adware can be installed by the methods of spyware.
Spyware removal is usually hard process. And usually uninstall of spyware can be performed only manually
Some spyware and viruses are masked as Microsoft Windows proceses. For example MyDoom.L, Windang.worm, Randex.AR and couple of other viruses masked as lsass.exe, the only difference is path. svchost.exe is the windows process and responsible for some network services, W32.Welchia.Worm is masked as this process. alg.exe is the Application Layer Gateway Service, also part of the Microsoft windows, but many viruses are using this name also. AutoUpdate process for Windows Millenium wuauclt.exe often becomes victim of virus. Microsoft Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem csrss.exe is cloned by Netsky Ladex And Webus trojans.
As example of the adware processes let look at bxxs5.dll is the browser plugin which replaces ads by his own.
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