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Bethrezen · Feb 25, 2005

hi all

I know that is going to be something of a strange request but does anyone know where i can find newb friendley explanations of what

Firewalls Anti-Virus Anti-Trojan Anti-Spyware and Anti Worm scanners are what thay do and why there needed

This is the section that im trying to improve

Firewall:

These are programs that inspect all the traffic flowing in and out of your computer while online allowing you to decide which programs you wish to allow or disallow access to the net think of a firewall as a bouncer for your computer keeping all the undesirable riff raff out off your system and making sure that all the programs that are on your system behave them selves

Anti-Virus:

These are programs that look for and destroy Viruses a Virus is a destructive bits of code that can do allsorts of nasty things to your computers from giving it a cold and making things crash to giving it a heart attack and killing your hard drive resulting in system restore

Anti-Trojan:

These are programs that look for and destroy Trojans a Trojan is similar to viruses in the fact that they can do allsorts of nasty things to your computer but unlike a virus a Trojan wont kill your system but rather install a hidden back which means that anyone can access your system and everything on it including things which you would like to keep secret like your bank account details worse still not only can they steal data off your compute but they can also download and install things on your compute as well even worse than that anyone utilising this hidden door also has the capacity to use your compute for illegal activities and guess who's going to get in trouble for that ?? The poor victim YOU !!!

Anti-Spyware:

These are programs that look for and destroy Malware similar to but less severe than a Trojan, Virus or a Worm Malware is any program or bit of code that

A. Doesn't fall under the heading of Virus or Trojan or Worm

B. Surreptitiously does nasty and/or undesirable things to your system with out your permission ranging from the benign and annoying such as displaying popup windows with ads when you surf the net to the severe and serious such as hijacking your browser to porn sights hijacking your net connection so that when you connect to the net you aren't connecting to your ISP but to some premium rate number or perhaps keylogging tracking or just general spying/stealing of personal data such as passwords or privet emails etc
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now im sure you will agree that my explanatins arent as good as thay could be so imlookin for somwhere that gives some better explations

Bethrezen · Mar 9, 2005

hi

never mind found what i was looking for but like always is ya feel ya have a controbution to make that please do so

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