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2 additional tools that compliment your system security as well as maintainance.
Clean out your system after surfing. Window Washer is a great shareware utility for removal of Internet cache, cookies and other junk. A 30 day trial is available for use. http://www.webroot.com/down1.htm
Need to filter everything from cookies to url referrers, popups and web bugs? WebWasher is a great addition to your firewall system and is free for home or educational use. I've rarely seen such a configurable utility: http://www.webwasher.com/en/products/wwash/download.htm
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today's mail from panda...
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986) Argentine poet
- Keystroke recorders used to obtain information -
Oxygen3 24h-365d, by Panda Software
Madrid, May 2, 2001 - Keystroke recorders are small utilities that allow
malicious users to obtain information on everything that is typed into a
certain computer.
These programs can enter the targeted systems using 'social engineering'
techniques, as Trojans do, or it can be the hacker themselves that
physically installs the program on the attacked system by taking
advantage of the computer user's carelessness.
Keystroke recorders will remain invisible to the targeted user, so that
everything that they type is stored in a file. When the hacker recovers
this log file, they will have access to all the documents that the user
under attack has written, as well as the login information (user name
and password) of all the systems that they logged into. In short, this
file contains all the keystrokes carried out from the moment the
resident program was installed till it was finally recovered.
This kind of tool was developed a long time ago and has become very
popular. They are available for any operating system and include all
types of features. In some cases, they can be configured to send the log
file to a particular Internet address. This way, the hacker does not
need to physically access the targeted computer in order to recover the
file.
In practice, the best way to know if one of these utilities is present
on the system is by checking the resident program and process list. As a
precautionary measure to avoid these attacks, we recommend that no
program of unknown origin is executed on the system.
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Remember, it's FREE advice. It may be worth all of two cents.
Jaak
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Geeez, go away a couple of days and a monster is born. Great info, I say lets keep it and not close it yet. Notice the mod's have stayed away, probably because its a great thread.
Hats off to Jaak for summerizing, fell asleep waiting for the thread to load. Sure BJ and Steve will leave alone also.
Lots of great information, even MACH2 read it........
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