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Spyware, malware, ウイルスs: Things you せねばならない know...

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You lock you car before leaving it on the street in some places, don't you?

You need to be careful about 面s of using your computer, too. You wouldn't tell a stranger the password to one of your online accounts, I hope? Spyware is a way for others to get such (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) without your knowing help. So how do you 避ける un-knowingly telling?


Some of what follows is "時代遅れの"... I wrote it long before this paragraph, which is new 11/20. But the 原則s remain. Indeed many things that are part of using computers today might be called "spyware". SOME of them are all but 避けられない. But because the landscape has become more コンビナート/複合体, you need to be MORE careful. You mustn't throw in the towel, just say "It's all too much for me." AT LEAST have a GOOD anti-malware 一括 in place, and doing its updates 適切に. For years (at 4/25) I've used eSet's 製品 for all of my anti-malware needs. I've used that and been careful in what I do on my computers.


It is possible for a programmer to give you two programs in one. The first might be a simple 解放する/自由な game which you might be inclined to pass on to friends. Buried within it can be a second program which could do lots of bad things. For instance, it can "watch" what 重要なs you type, and send 報告(する)/憶測s 支援する to the programmer from time to time, typically when you are on the internet. This can 含む web 演説(する)/住所s, 使用者 指名するs and passwords. Another, いっそう少なく dangerous, but perhaps more annoying, payload which malware can 配達する is "junk mail" which will clutter your 審査する.

How do you get 感染させるd? By 任命する/導入するing programs, which you may do 故意に, or by 開始 email attachments, or by visiting the wrong websites without proper 保護. Of course, if you are not the only person who can 接近 the computer you are using, there is always the chance that someone else got it 感染させるd with spyware.... or that they deliberately 任命する/導入するd a keystroke logging program. In the latter 事例/患者, as long as they can re-visit the machine later, it doesn't need an internet 関係 to 妥協 your passwords.

How can you 保護する yourself from malware?

Start with good anti-ウイルス and firewall 保護. They are both 現在の in a good anti-malware 控訴. (A ウイルス is just one sort of malware.) Don't, by the way, 落ちる for the I-hope-now-dead myth that you can't get ウイルスs on a Mac (Apple).

There are 付加 programs to help you... but be sure you only go 近づく reputable ones. There are many wolves out there wearing sheep's 着せる/賦与するing. More on them in a moment.

As much as I hate to say it, I really, really would move to Windows 10 at least. And probably even Windows 11, sigh. For 推論する/理由s of "安全". It is one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't propositions.

Long ago, there were two 保護の programs often について言及するd as 存在 井戸/弁護士席 written and 効果的な. In April 2025 they were still around(!)... but I've stopped に引き続いて the 現在の anti-malware 製品 最高位のs.

Now I can only 本人自身で recommend eSet, and a professional 専門家技術者. The 製品s I 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる)d here for many years were Lavasoft's 広告-Aware and Safer 網状組織ing, the home of Spybot and other 道具s. Both were 解放する/自由な downloads. There was more about what malware is at their 場所/位置s. I first learned about much of this from a discussion of spyware at 天候 Graphics' 利益/興味ing 場所/位置. (They no longer appear to have anything about spyware, but I'm leaving this link "for old times sake"!) I would also like to thank the British magazine Computer Shopper for the good 構成要素 in their Feb 2005 問題/発行する. (残り/休憩(する) in peace: A 犠牲者 of Covid, after 32 years of fabulous service to the 計算するing community. ComputerActive is good at April 2025

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For a long time, I 示唆するd you go to GRC, use their 道具s to check your system. I revisited the 場所/位置 3 Apr 25. It is still 利益/興味ing! It has been around for a long time! I 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う much of the stuff is good... but I can't say I know that. Ant it probably isn't for the casual computer 使用者.

All that said, if you are 利益/興味d in the 安全 of your computer, have a look around www.grc.com for... "fun"? And to see what things you can learn? Their "保護物,者s Up" service has been around for a very long time.

STAY AWAY from pages without a 長年の good 評判! There are many pages that 趣旨 to "check" for bad stuff when 現実に what they do is INSTALL it!.


This paragraph 時代遅れの: There are many pages that 趣旨 to "直す/買収する,八百長をする" when 現実に what they do is MAKE WORSE!...If you become 感染させるd... good luck to you. I am lucky- I know someone more 専門家 than me whom I 信用 and would take my computer to him.

If you are on your own, for stubborn things, you may need to 雇う a 現在の 同等(の) of "ハイジャック(する) This". ("ハイジャック(する) This" may still be good.) DO NOT just waltz into the ハイジャック(する) This community and 地位,任命する スピードを出す/記録につけるs without some careful 準備. ハイジャック(する) This is.. was?... a program which 診察するs your computer and 準備するs a 報告(する)/憶測, the "スピードを出す/記録につける" I just について言及するd. *IF* you have done everything else that you should, FIRST, you send that スピードを出す/記録につける to 専門家s. They then advise you.


Don't be scammed! If you get a message on your machine 説 that you're 感染させるd, ignore any "Just click here, and we'll help you 除去する it" type stuff. There are people out there who 感染させる you, and then 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 you for 除去するing what they've done.


In 事例/患者 it amuses, here's a 公式文書,認める about a trick that was used before doing 類似の things across the internet was 平易な...

A long time ago at 11/20, someone 工夫するd very neat little piece of 金物類/武器類 which the "bad guy" 挿入するs between the keyboard and the computer. In the 早期に days it was as fat as a PS/2 plug, and about 3cm long. Typically, it would be 大(公)使館員d to the end of the keyboard's cable... it could still be put between the keyboard's dongle and the computer... and plugged into the connector on the outside of the "box". (It could be 任命する/導入するd inside the box). Once that was in place, it 監視するd what people type. The "bad guy" comes along at his/ her leisure, opens up something like Notepad, types "MySecretPassword", and into the Notepad 文書 (or into at thumb 運動 or internet account) 流出/こぼすs 最近の keyboard activity. At the time I first wrote this, I 選ぶd 128k as an almost unimaginably big chunk of data! (It was 35 times the text in this 文書 at that time.) There are also ways to do essentially the same thing using programs within the computer. They give the bad guy more things to 打ち勝つ to 任命する/導入する them... but in many 事例/患者s, it wouldn't be difficult. Now of course, it is possible to for the bad guy to 収穫 the keystroke スピードを出す/記録につける remotely.

Do you use computers at the library, in a hotel ロビー, at an internet cafe? As Phil always said: "Let's be careful out there....."


進歩? Not! I first started 警告 people about spyware on one of my pages in December 2001. It seemed pretty esoteric then. I'm sorry that malware in general has become a mainstream serious problem. Once upon a time, the malware writers were like kids throwing bricks through windows. In some ways, we didn't know how lucky we were. In those days, if you got 攻撃する,衝突する by malware, you knew it, and the writers were disaffected misfits on the fringes.

Today the problem is much more serious for two 推論する/理由s:



As we were waxing all nostalgic a moment ago, let me 株 another story: Around 1984 I was working in a school. A 同僚 was alarmed by 報告(する)/憶測s of pornography 存在 循環させるd on floppy レコードs. (5- 1/4" floppies, of course!) I told him not to worry... graphics were so 天然のまま in those days that the テレビ視聴者 needed a good imagination. I guess I'd be more 関心d today.


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