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Please only submit your website here if you cannot find an appropriate subcategory for your website. If you are submitting a software application to combat spyware, please submit it to the Products and Tools subcategory. If you are submitting a web page for a service with technicians that remove spyware from computers, please submit it to the appropriate subcategory in the Regional/ top category for the area that your company services. If your site is just an affiliate link farm with affiliate links to spyware product pages, please do not submit it to any category. Please note - We do not knowingly list rogue anti-spyware products.
then it will NOT be listed. Sites are constantly reviewed and re-reviewed, and sites offering rogue products are de-listed. If you notice one of the sites listed is for a rogue anti-spyware product, please post in the abuse reporting forum at http://resource-zone.com/ , citing your sources of evidence, and your allegation will be investigated. |
Malicious Software (also known as malware) refers to viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, and similar threats.This category deals in understanding and protecting against these threats, not in promoting them.
This category contains sites/categories relating to historic malware threats. e.g. Old viruses/trojans etc that are not currently a threat, but were significant in their time.
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Please only submit your website here if you cannot find an appropriate subcategory for your website. If you are submitting a software application to combat spyware, please submit it to the Products and Tools subcategory. If you are submitting a web page for a service with technicians that remove spyware from computers, please submit it to the appropriate subcategory in the Regional/ top category for the area that your company services. If your site is just an affiliate link farm with affiliate links to spyware product pages, please do not submit it to any category. Please note - We do not knowingly list rogue anti-spyware products.
then it will NOT be listed. Sites are constantly reviewed and re-reviewed, and sites offering rogue products are de-listed. If you notice one of the sites listed is for a rogue anti-spyware product, please post in the abuse reporting forum at http://resource-zone.com/ , citing your sources of evidence, and your allegation will be investigated. |
Spyware and Adware are increasingly common and closely related forms of malicious software.Spyware refers to software that transmits personal information such as browsing habits without proper authorization. The functions of most advertising software (adware) can be classified as spyware, because they transmit information back to advertisers for marketing purposes.
Adware refers to parasitic marketing software, which may be bundled with other seemingly desirable software, distributed by masquerading as a browser plugin, or more disturbingly, distributed via security holes in a user's browser.
Beyond being an invasion of privacy and an annoyance to many users, spyware and adware programs are often poorly written, exposing victims to browser and operating system instability and insecurity, and often burrow deeply into critical operating system components making their removal a dangerous time consuming process.
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Computer Viruses are malicious programs designed to self-replicate and spread to other systems. Their function can range anywhere from displaying a message on a certain date, to permitting others to control your computer, to erasing files or formatting your hard drive. Trojan Horses are similar, except that a trojan horse is defined as any malicious program disguised as a harmless one. (Which means that all Computer Viruses are also trojan horses, but not all trojan horses are viruses)The best protection against either viruses or trojan horses is to be very careful not to run any untrusted files, and to run an up to date virus scanner regularly.
Information relating to the detection and removal of worms.
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