10 dangerous spyware threats
Spyware is one of the most dangerous threats for all Internet users. It is hard to detect and infection can be very costly, in terms of time and money. Every PC user is at risk if they are not using anti-spyware software. On a global scale, this problem affects almost everyone, and thus the development of the anti-spyware industry. These anti spyware software products remove or disable existing spyware on your computer.
New spyware threats are appearing every day, but some are more dangerous than others. A few of most dangerous spyware threats are described here.
Vundo, also known as the Vundo Trojan, Virtumonde, Virtumondo and MS Juan is a Trojan horse that will show popups and advertising on your computer. It often advertises fake antispyware software, prompting you to pay for a license with your credit card. Sometimes it can cause your PC to slow down and websites to stop working correctly.
PurityScan works by displaying pop-up advertisements on your computer when you are online and it encourages you to install it by claiming to find and delete pornographic images. It does do what is says in a basic way but it also installs “OIN client software” which will make ads appear on your desktop.
N-CASE is another spyware, which is basically an adware program delivering targeted pop-up advertisements to web page and then to your computer. It contains freeware applications.
Contraviro is another fake anti-spyware program that uses false “security alerts” and scan results to make you think that your computer is infected with spyware, adware and viruses. It seems that this rogue software was created by the same people who created Unvirex, another rogue spyware remover.
Perfect Keylogger is a monitoring instrument recording all visited web sites, keystrokes and mouse clicks. So all your secret information like passwords, account numbers is collected bythem.
CoolWebSearch hijacks your web searches, home page, and the Internet explorer settings, there have many changes in this spyware which uses HTML applications or security flaws and then invade your computer.
Transponder is an IE Browser Helper Object that monitors the web pages you are visiting and data entered into online forms and then delivers targeted advertisements.
ISTbar/AUpdate is a toolbar used for searching pornographic web sites and displays pornographic pop-ups and hijacks the home page and Internet searches.
KeenValue is a dangerous spyware that collects personal information and delivers advertisements to your computer.
Bargain Buddy sends targeted pop-up advertisements to the computer based on key words that you enter while surfing the Web. It also takes control of the error pages and redirects them to its own webserver.
Gator is an adware program that will show banner advertisements based on the habits of your web surfing. It is packaged with many free software programs, like the popular file-sharing program Kazaa.
Spyware generates data regarding the habits of Internet users and are sold to spammers and are misused. So be careful about these spyware and protect yourself using a good antispyware solution.