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What is Trojans

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A Trojan horse is a malevolent program concealed as a safe software program. Trojans spread through Web downloads and e-mail and not like viruses. Trojans can disable security software to allow hackers remote access to a computer.
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Spyware
Jon Beedle (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 4
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch125
Abstract
Spyware is a software program that runs silently in the background draining valuable computer system resources while monitoring the user’s activities. Without a security suite or an antispyware software program installed on a user’s computer, this security breach is difficult for a user to identify while giving hackers an electronic line of attack in hijacking personal information. Spyware applications can run in the background at boot up, slow the microprocessor with requests, and take up random access memory. Spyware may reset a startup page or redirect your search engine; it may likely produce conspicuous advertising pop-ups each time a browser loads ordinary Web pages (Coustan, n.d.).
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