Anti virus

Anti virus

Software applications for preventing, detecting, and removing malware, including computer viruses, worms, and trojan horses.

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(or Keystroke Logger) Tracking Software that records keyboard and/or mouse activity. Keyloggers typically either store the recorded keystrokes for later retrieval or they transmit them to the remote ...

Objective Criteria

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The behavioural factors which anti-spyware companies use to decide whether to consider a process or programme Spyware

Passive Tracking Technologies

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Technologies used to monitor user behaviour or gather information about the user, sometimes including personally identifiable or other sensitive information

Password Cracker

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Security Analysis Software designed to allow someone to recover or decrypt lost, forgotten or unknown passwords. Password Cracker can guess a password by running a brute-force attack, e.g. testing ...

Personally Identifiable Information

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(PII) 'Personal information' is information concerning an identified or identifiable individual, the collection, use or disclosure which the individual would ordinarily want to control. Different ...

Port Scanner

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Security Analysis Software used to discover what computer network services a remote system provides. Port scanning indicates where to probe for weaknesses

Potentially Unwanted programme

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(PUP) An application that does not display malicious behaviour yet raises minor security/privacy/behavioral concerns where its usefulness could be disputed