Enforced Client Product Guide

Using the Virus and Spyware Protection Service

 

Configuring policies for virus and spyware protection

Threat type

Description

 

 

Spyware

Programs that covertly gather user information through the user’s Internet

 

connection without the user’s knowledge. Once installed, spyware monitors

 

user activity on the Internet and transmits that information in the background

 

to someone else. Spyware can gather information such as email addresses,

 

websites visited, passwords, and credit card numbers.

 

 

Dialers

Programs that hijack a user’s modem and dial premium-rate phone numbers,

 

such as those required to access pornographic websites.

 

 

Password crackers

Programs that find passwords or encryption keys by trying every possible

 

combination of characters until the code is broken.

Adware

Programs that display unsolicited advertisements. Adware often includes

 

code that tracks a user's personal information and transmits it to someone

 

else, without the user's knowledge.

 

 

Potentially unwanted

Programs such as viruses, worms, and Trojan horses that perform some

programs

unauthorized (and often harmful or undesirable) act.

 

 

Key loggers

Programs that record every keystroke a user makes. They can be used to

 

steal passwords and other confidential information.

 

 

To specify programs to detect:

1On the Groups + Policies page, click Add Policy (or click Edit to modify an existing policy).

2Click the Advanced Settings tab.

3Select each type of program you want to detect, then click Save.

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SonicWALL 4.5 manual Spyware, Dialers, Password crackers, Adware, Potentially unwanted, Key loggers

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