Advertising Spyware
Advertising spyware is software that is installed with other software or active controls on the Internet, often without the user knows that without full disclosure is used for the collection of personal data and / or user of the ads. Advertising spyware logs information about the user, including passwords, e-mail, surfing the Internet history, the online buying habits, computer hardware and software, the name, age, sex, etc. of the user.
Like spam, spyware advertising uses the CPU, RAM, and the resources at the user’s computer, allowing the user to pay and the cost of the operation. After that they needed the bandwidth of users to connect to the Internet and download the personal information, regardless of their collected for the advertising and download it to be the user, or by way of pop-up windows.
Posted on: Friday, April 4, 2008 at 11:27 am
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