Espionage on the internet: Spyware & Adware

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Informatik - Wirtschaftsinformatik, Note: 1,3, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Veranstaltung: Business Information systems, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In 2005 America Online (AOL) and the National Cyber-Security Alliance (NCSA) published the results of a study about online safety. 61% of the asked persons know that they had at least once spyware or adware on their PC. 92% of these people who had at least once problems with spyware or adware answered, that they had not given the permission of installing this kind of software.1 I have chosen this topic, because I wanted to learn more about this actual topic, especially how I can better identify and protect myself against spyware & adware. I am also interested in finding out, what this spyware & Adware is doing on the PC without my knowledge. For this question I want to find an answer in this executive summary. The next points of this executive summary will at first be about basic information about spyware in comparison with adware and then how a PC user can identify and protect against this kind of software. After this I will give my personal opinion on spy- and adware.