What Is the Difference Between Antispyware and Antivirus Software?

"Spyware is everywhere" is a consensus reached in the computer security industry.

Antispyware

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Trackware

Dr. An, a company with a market share of 72% in the Korean antivirus market, believes that the types of spyware are divided into TrackWare, which collects user trends, adware, which is designed for advertising, and programs that infringe on the privacy of users or cause inconvenience to users.

Trackware is a collection of user actions for advertising purposes. No personal information was leaked like a Trojan, but in some cases personal privacy was violated and unexpected problems could occur. This is also the original concept of spyware. In foreign countries, it is generally used to collect personal information, including frequently connected website information and search keywords.

With the exception of some spyware that is specifically designed to steal important customer information, it is difficult to determine whether other software with commercial purposes has caused harm to customers. For example, many internet assistive tools are mandatory installed for customers. These tools provide some convenience for customers (such as providing search assistance, Chinese Internet access, etc.), and are also collecting customer information. Is the information obtained without the user's knowledge considered illegal? Adding a lot of advertisements to the webpage and modifying the client's browsing homepage are considered inconvenient or even harmful to the client? Existing laws and regulations have not been specifically defined, which makes the discrimination of spyware different, and also causes different security vendors to deal with different spyware in different ways.

In 2005, Dr. An launched SpyZero, an anti-spyware software, in the face of increasing spyware and computer users' misery. The product follows strict international industry standards. It analyzes the software on the computer to determine whether it is a spyware program. It can detect and treat tens of thousands of spyware programs. In addition, Dr. An's official website has been promoting free spyware inspection activities for a long time.

AhnLab SpyZero

AhnLab SpyZero can scan and treat harmful programs that are not allowed by users, protect personal information and help users to shop online freely; can monitor in real time, prevent harmful control keys ActiveX that are not allowed, and protect personal information stored on computers You can shop online freely; and it has the function of system cleaning, and it is easy to delete the personal data temporarily stored in the system. Runtime cleanup protects important personal information and prevents the leakage and misuse of unwanted programs.