What’s a malware ? Definition of Virus, Adware, Spyware
This is a general explanation about different kind of online threats. What they do, and how. Introduction to viruses, malware, worms, adware and others.
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What is Code Signing?
Code signing is required to load drivers in Windows. Also, they tell users if an application can be trusted and launched. Learn how it works.
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What is an Adware ? How to Remove ?
Adware (ad-ware) are a quite recent thread, compared of the others. They begin to rise in popularity with the decline of the shareware license model. Instead of offering trial version of the software they developed, software writers began to include ads in their installers
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What is a Virus ? How to Remove ?
Computer viruses were the first kind of malware that were developed. At the beginning, they were not malicious per se (the first computer virus “Creeper”, developed in 1970 only displayed a message), but soon after malicious ones begin to appear and counter-measures known as “anti-virus” software were developed.
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What is a Trojan ? How to Remove ?
Trojan horses usually use social engineering, like a pirated software or a fake Office document send by mail, to gain control over a computer. Once installed, they usually hide themselves from the system and make it impossible for the user to remove.
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What is a Computer Worm ? How to Remove ?
Computers worms are designed to leverage vulnerabilities that allow them to gain control over a device then scan the network for other vulnerable devices and so one
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What happens on the Darknet ?
Alpha bay, Silk Road, Hansa: They made the headlines of newspapers for weeks. They were underground markets offering several illicit goods and services and were shut down in 2013 and 2017. All were using Tor, currently the most used parallel Internet network, called Darknet. DARKNET Computers connected to the Internet use the Internet protocol suite…
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Userland Rootkits: Part 1, IAT hooks
Userland Rootkits explained. This is the first part of this rootkit writing tutorial in which we will detail the basics about userland rootkits.
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