Archive for the ‘Anti-Spyware’ Category.
25. April 2007, 19:22
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a technology for detection and location of objects via radio communication.
In the past this technology was used by military for detection and recognizing of own and enemy troops.
Now it will be used not only by army. Modern retail security systems in the super marks and other shops are based on the RFID technology.
The criticism of RFID grows parallel with the increasing of RFID expansion on the civil market.
The data protection specialists warn that consumer in future will not be able to control the data transfer of RFID.
There is a danger that RFID will be transformed in some kind of tracking cookie in real world.
I think that it is impossible to stop this transformation, because of great interest of the big companies on it. But I think that in future we will able to buy special devices that will be able to detect and destroy RFID chips.
9. January 2007, 21:19
Cookie is a small text file, which will be created by a web server and saved on client during visiting a web site.
For example a cookie will be created if you log in, in some board. It is needed, to identify you as user on this board. That’s why, a cookie is very useful.
But the tracking-cookies are not only not useful, but potentially unsafe too. Those cookies will be oft used to collect private information about user behaviour in the internet.
There are many methods to protect yourself from this kind of spyware. You can disable the accepting of cookies in the browser. But if you do it, you will be not able to log in into several web sites.
The other thing that you can do is to install some anti spyware tools that will protect your computer from stealing of the data. The most of anty spyware tools can detect bad cookies and delete it. Some of them are able to do this on the fly.
Some of the best tools are Lavasoft Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy. These programs work very well and are free.