• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.41-47
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• 2006

Spyware is any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization with-out their knowledge. Software designed to serve advertising, known as adware, can usually be thought of as spyware as well because it almost invariably includes components for tracking and reporting user information. A piece of spyware and adware affect computers which can rapidly become infected with large numbers of spyware and adware components. Users frequently notice from un-wanted behavior and degradation of system performance, such as significant unwanted CPU activity, disk usage, and network traffic which thereby slows down legitimate uses of these resources. The presence of situation will continue because of rapid expansion of Internet usages. Therefore, security solutions, such as anti-adware and anti-spyware, for recovering these malfunction due to the malicious programs must be developed. However, studies on the malicious programs are still not sufficient. Accordingly, this paper has studied the malicious program techniques, based on the results of analysis of present adware and spyware techniques by employing collected samples, and presents efficient measures for blocking and remedying the malicious programs.