Abandonware
Abandonware refers to computer software that is no longer claimed owned or copyrighted. While the term has been applied largely to older games other classes of software are sometimes described as such. Definitions of "abandoned" vary; generally i..
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Anti-corporate activism
Anti corporate activists see activism believe that the rise of large business corporations is posing a threat to the legitimate authority of the public good. These corporations they believe are invading people's privacy manipulating politics and ..
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Bayesian poisoning
Bayesian poisoning is a technique used by spammers to attempt to degrade the effectiveness of spam filters that rely on bayesian spam filtering. Bayesian filtering relies on Bayesian probability to determine whether an incoming mail is spam or is..
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Bayesian spam filtering
Bayesian spam filtering a form of e mail filtering is the process of using a Naive Bayes classifier to identify spam email. A form of Bayesian filtering was proposed by Sahami et al. 1998 but the technique was not widely used until 2002 when a mu..
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Click fraud
Click fraud is a type of internet crime that occurs in pay per click online advertising when a person automated script or computer program imitates a legitimate user of a web browser clicking on an ad for the purpose of generating a charge per cl..
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Greylisting
Greylisting sometimes spelled graylisting is a method of defending electronic mail users against e mail spam. A mail transfer agent using greylisting will "temporarily reject" any email from a sender it does not recognize. If the mail is legitima..
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Rootkit
A rootkit is a program or combination of several programs designed to take fundamental control in Unix terms "root" access in Windows terms "Administrator" access of a computer system without authorization by the system's owners and legitimate ma..
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SHRED
Spam Harassment Reduction via Economic Disincentives SHRED is a proposed sender at risk E mail stamp mechanism for reducing the E mail spamming problem by indirectly increasing the cost of E mail sending to the senders of unwanted E mail. It aims..
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Spam blog
This article is about blogs designed to host spam. For spamming made through comments in legitimate blogs see Spam in blogs. Spam blogs sometimes referred to by the neologism splogs are artificially created weblog sites which the author uses to p..
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Spamtrap
A spamtrap is a honeypot used to collect spam. Spamtraps are usually e mail addresses that are created not for communication but rather to lure spam. In order to prevent legitimate email from being invited the e mail address will typically only b..
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Sping
Sping is short for "spam ping" and is related to fraudulent pings from blogs using trackbacks called trackback spam. Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service a ping server providing notification of n..
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System Safety Monitor
System Safety Monitor SSM is a HIPS software or behavior blocker developed by System Safety Ltd for the Windows platform. SSM does not rely on signatures to detect malware but instead monitors the system for certain types of suspicious behavior a..
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Zango
Zango formerly 180solutions and Hotbar manufactures known adware and spyware typically required to access partner's games DRM protected videos and software. Zango software is listed as "Adware" by Symantec. McAfee states "this program may have le..
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