untangling_the_web

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Bugnosis does not block or clear web bugs, but it will certainly make you want to
fumigate your computer by letting you see just how many of these pests are infesting
the websites you visit, but it only works with Internet Explorer. For a detailed
explanation of how web bugs work and how they are used, see the Web Bug FAQ
provided by the Privacy Foundation.
Bugnosis
Web Bug FAQ
Guidescope
http://www.bugnosis.org/
http://www.bugnosis.org/faq.html
http://www.guidescope.com/home/
WebWashe~o7
http://www.cyberguard.com/products/webwasher/webwasherproducts/c1assiclindex.html
Find and Remove Trojan Horses 208
There are few things worse that can happen to your computer than to become
infested with a Trojan horse in general or a RAT in particular. A RAT is a special
form of a Trojan: the Remote Access Trojan, which is malicious software that runs
invisibly on a computer and permits an intruder to access and control that computer
remotely. The reason Trojans and RATs are so pernicious, dangerous, and
infuriating is that they are difficult to detect and harder still to exterminate. The
best defense, not surprisingly, is a good offense: don't get a Trojan in the first place.
So how do most people get Trojans on their computers? There are many ways, but
the most common are unwittingly installing them in games or other software, or by
opening email attachments.
As if this isn't bad enough, in September 2005, F-Secure identified a new Trojan
horse that moves from mobile phones to computers. It appears to be a pirated
version of a mobile phone game users can download from the web; the malware
installs itself and runs on a PC when a user transfers data from his mobile phone to
his computer. The Trojan also infects the phone. While this vulnerability is rated as a
206 "Web bug," Computer Desktop Encyclopedia. Computer Language Company Inc., 2005,
Answers.com, (14 November 2006).
207 "Cyberguard has changed the license for Webwasher Classic to Donationware and asks you to
make a donation before downloading Webwasher Classic." However, the donation is voluntary.
208 A Trojan horse is "a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside apparently
harmless programming or data in such a way that it can get control and do its chosen form of
damage." Trojan horses are often used in what are known as "zombie" distributed denial of service
attacks in which attackers place Trojans on many computers, then use them as part of a concerted
attack, flooding a website or server with so much data it is effectively shut down. Many people have
Trojan horses on their computers without knowing it. "Trojan horse," SearchSecurity.com,
(14 November 2006).
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