Spyware is a program created to spy (spy). Spyware is not a common threat, but can be very dangerous, as the name suggests, the privacy of spyware threats that can reduce system performance and network
Spyware has been since 1994, rampant. At that time, the famous crocodile spy software.Spyware is still there. With the development of technology, spyware, scheduled for the advertising. But now everything has changed for the purpose of promoting the spyrware destructive.
Spyware Categories
There are several categories of spyware, namely:
1. Trojan / Backdoor
2. Adware
3. Keylogger
4. DDoS agents (zombies)
5. Sniffer, password cracking
6. Browser Helper Object
7. Kazaa’s P2P example.
8. Rats – Remote Access Tools / trojan.
If we see a duplication of the anti-virus solution, the part of the Trojan. Anti-virus solution to detect the existence of a common Trojan horse in our system. But for other categories, such as adware, P2P networks, hacking tools, the general anti-virus detection does not enter this category.
So why tools such as sniffer into spyware? There is a reason behind it. As we know, sniffing tool, there are two aspects, good or useful for the administrator side.
Sniffer can be used by administrators to do a ‘trace’ or analysis package in their network.Network bandwidth capacity of the load utility that also use sniffer technology. Intrusion detection tool – Network intrusion detection systems based on use of sniffer technology to a network intrusion detection.
But on the other side of the original sniffer can be used for that purpose is not a good example for the olfactory user name and password to the network. Therefore, when the existing verification system does not use the encrypted password and user ID, or the form of ‘plain text’, then the sniffer can easily see the user names and passwords.
In addition, there are types of spyware, people are pleased to install it in the P2P – peer to peer software Kazaa example – P2P file sharing is very popular. Kazaa’s with a lot of adware – software ads – because there they get the profits. This category includes the ‘user awareness of installation’ means a user to trigger installation of their own making, or through an embedded device, for example, when downloading or surfing the Internet.
