Spyware

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Author(s): Jon Beedle (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 4
Source title: Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence A. Tomei (Robert Morris University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch125

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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Spyware is a software program that runs silently in the background draining valuable computer system resources while monitoring the user’s activities. Without a security suite or an antispyware software program installed on a user’s computer, this security breach is difficult for a user to identify while giving hackers an electronic line of attack in hijacking personal information. Spyware applications can run in the background at boot up, slow the microprocessor with requests, and take up random access memory. Spyware may reset a startup page or redirect your search engine; it may likely produce conspicuous advertising pop-ups each time a browser loads ordinary Web pages (Coustan, n.d.).

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