Protect Your Computer And Your Personal Information From Spyware

Spyware is a broad term used for certain types of software that are downloaded onto your computer without your knowledge. Malware has become a phrase that is used when describing spyware and adware. Spyware is placed on your computer in order to track your internet surfing habits. It knows every site you visit and every page on that site. Spyware also collects your personal information through software...

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Do You Know That Spyware Nuker is a Malware itself?

Sam

(Writen By Sam - EduX Services)

Spyware Nuker is a malware itself

Hi everyone, this is Sam again. As you would have probably know that this article could be marketing related or it could be regarding Internet Business. But this time, i am going to write something different. This article is meant to provide additional information regarding a antispyware software name as Spyware Nuker.

Did anyone buy this so call "antispyware software"? I hope not. Because this software is actually a malware itself.

Let me give you a report by Symantec.

Ok... Here is the link :

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.sp ywarenuker.html

If you happen to dowwnload this program, you can remove them by following the instructions in the above link which i have given here.

Anyway, this is a summary report on this malware.

Summary

Behavior

Adware.SpywareNuker is an adware program that downloads advertisements from a server and displays them on the system. It has the ability track your Web browsing habits, and to download new versions of the software with additional functionality without user notification.

Note: May break Layered Service Provider(LSP) in Windows TCP/IP leading to loss of networking capabilities.

Symptoms

Files on the system detected as Adware.SpywareNuker.

Computer attempts to connect to www.spywarenuker.com.

Transmission

This adware program has to be installed manually.

When the installation process is started, SpywareNukerInstaller.exe attempts to connect to spywarenuker.com to download SpyNukerSetup.exe, which is another component of the setup program. This file is saved to C:Program FilesTrek Blue. When the download is complete this file is executed.

By default, the program installs itself to C:Program FilesTrek BlueSpyware Nuker, and then insert several files and subfolders in this folder.

The program comes with a LSPFix executable that modifies Windows TCP/IP setup. As a result of this modification, you may loose network connectivity.

I hope this come useful to you all. Just in case if you wanted to know if a certain program is a malware or virus, you may use the search function ofr the symantec website. Just type the program name and you will know if the security center sees them as malware or not.

Just to provide all the information which i can give, you can find the link for symantec website here: http://www.symantec.com/index.htm

Article at: http://www.edux.com.sg/newsletter/newsletter10_1.html

About the author: Sam is a writer from EduX Services - a web solution and internet marketing firm in Singapore. He is committed to share information on Internet Marketing, E-Commerce and PC protection to the rest.


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