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Spyware Defense[TM] introduces next generation Spyware protection.


Ashantiplc Ltd., provider of software development and proprietary technology to individuals and businesses worldwide, has announced the launch of its Spyware It Might Even Tell You It's Spyware
The license agreement that everyone accepts without reading may actually state that you are installing spyware and explain what it does. For example, it might say that the program performs anonymous profiling, which means that your habits are being recorded, not you individually. Such software is used to create marketing profiles; for example, people who go to Web site "A" often go to site "B" and so on.
 Defense application. Spyware Defense is an efficient software program driving even more robust functionality than other similar applications on the market today. Its biggest advantage is in its real-time elimination of spyware upon detection, user control over what programs are eliminated and what are kept, and its centralized management features within a LAN environment for large-scale enterprise protection.

Spyware Defense works on single computers or local area networks. Its robust, centralized LAN features include domain-wide client installation, remote client execution, remote client signature updates and scheduled automatic remote client spyware scanning and removal. Enterprises and IT administrators find the application extremely effective because it offers scanning and removal of spyware for all LAN clients from one single location.

Spyware Defense guards PCs from infection caused by malicious code downloaded without the users' knowledge while surfing the Internet, receiving email or downloading freeware or shareware programs including peer-to-peer file swapping See peer-to-peer network and file sharing protocol. products. Once infected, a user's computer can transmit private and confidential data including email addresses, proprietary business intelligence, passwords and credit card numbers, and drain computer memory resources and bandwidth, which leads to slowed processing.

Spyware Defense secures users growing and adaptive vulnerabilities, offering a real-time, desktop interface that tracks any spyware activity on a computer, letting users monitor and prevent most spyware infection attempts instantly. The application offers a Simple and Advance User Interface Mode. Users can view a list of possible spyware found on the hard drive with the option to quickly delete it, including tracking cookies that can obtain personal information leading to identity theft. Some other features include ActiveX, BHO BHO - Battle Handover
BHO - Bhopal, India (airport code)
BHO - Browser Helper Object
, LSP, Hosts File A text file in a Unix network that provides name resolution of host names to IP addresses. In years past, HOSTS files, which contain a host name and corresponding IP address on each line, were placed on clients and servers and manually updated. HOSTS files have long since given way to network-based naming systems such as DNS; however, they are still used with specific machines to override such naming systems for testing purposes and special situations. See DNS and LMHOSTS file. Management and removal, Internet Explorer web-based settings management, Windows Process list management, Open Hidden windows management, search strings and a complete restore feature to undo any changes you make.

"After two years' of research and development, we're excited to finally offer this superior technology to individuals and business enterprises," states James Pauls of Ashantiplc Ltd. "The new Spyware Defense application scans and removes more than 1,000 different spyware programs from the user's computer in real-time. It protects users seamlessly, launching automatically with Windows. So businesses are no longer vulnerable to spyware security breaches. We've also made usability as efficient and hands-free as possible, to ensure every computer stays clean."
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Publication:EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
Date:Aug 29, 2005
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