Fully Remove the Disk Antivirus Professional Virus and Safe Guard Your Computer 1. Disk Antivirus Professional Removal Video (Of Smart Fortress 2012 but it's the exact same threat, just a different name) 2. Disk Antivirus Professional Removal Guide 3. Software and Services to help you remove Disk … [Read more...]
Vishing
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What is Vishing Vishing is widely known to be a criminal practice used in various social engineering activities in order to gather private information from the general public while engaged in a phone conversation. This type of criminal activity is usually done over the phone using services … [Read more...]
Spam
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What is Spam? Spamming (or spam) is the process of sending unsolicited email, most of the times with commercial purposes, practiced mostly alongside illegal electronic marketing practices by pornographic website owners and misleading pharmaceutical products. However, even if these two categories of … [Read more...]
Botnets
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What are Botnets? Botnets are networks of interconnected, autonomous and automatically infected computers used to carry out malicious digital activities such as denial of service attacks, spam or even further malicious software distribution. However, even if the term “botnet” tends to … [Read more...]
RootKits | What Are They?
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Rootkits are programs that are used to hide the fact that a system’s security has been compromised. Rootkits must be inserted manually by an attacker and will normally replace system files and executables. The rootit will then hide the fact that the attacker has modified files and folders and … [Read more...]
Trojans | What Are They?
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Trojans, also known by the name Trojan Horses, are malicious software applications which appear to be performing a desired action for the user while in reality creating a backdoor entrance to the system for hackers to use hence it takes its name from the famous Trojan horse which was used to … [Read more...]
Spyware | What is Spyware?
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Spyware is a type of malicious software that is installed on a computer to monitor the user’s activities and report them back to the spyware developer. This is in direct violation of the user’s privacy, and is banned by international law. Therefore spyware is considered as a dangerous … [Read more...]
Malware | What Is Malware?
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Malware is the short form of Malicious Software, which refers to a group of dangerous software that engages in activities that are hostile and intrusive. It is used to commit cyber crimes, to harm large networks as part of terrorist acts, or just to cause general havoc. Malware can be forced on … [Read more...]
Adware | What is Adware
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Adware are applications that automatically play, display or download advertisements to a computer. These are also known as Advertisement-supported software. The advertisements may be displayed at all times or only when the software is being run. Adware can also download and run Spyware which are … [Read more...]
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