System information

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Anti-Spam databases contain "black" and "white" lists of senders' addresses, and
lists of words and phrases related to various categories of spam such as
advertising, medicine and health, gambling.
PHISHING
Phishing is a type of fraudulent internet activity which aims to "fish" personal
information from computer users, such as credit card numbers and PINs, in order
to steal their money.
Phishing is often related to internet banking. Intruders create an exact copy of
the targeted bank's website and then send messages to the bank's clients.
Clients are notified that due to changes in, or failure of, the web banking system,
users' accounts were lost and that the user must confirm or change their
information on the bank's website. The user accesses the intruder's website, and
enters their personal data there.
Anti-phishing databases contain a list of websites known as sites used for
phishing attacks.
Kaspersky Internet Security analyzes incoming messages to supported email
clients (Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express), and if it finds a
link to a listed phishing website, marks this message as spam. If the user opens
the message and tries to follow the link, the application blocks the connection to
the website.
HACKER ATTACKS
A network attack is an intrusion into a remote computer's system to gain control
over it, generally to cause it to fail, or to obtain access to protected information.
Network attacks are either the actions of intruders (for example, scanning ports,
attempts to hack passwords), or of malware programs running commands on the
intruder's behalf and, for instance, transferring information to a remote "master"
program. The programs used include Trojan programs, DoS attacks, malicious
scripts and certain types of network worms.
Network attacks are spread in the local area and global networks using
vulnerabilities in the operating systems and applications. They can be transferred
as individual IP data packets during network connections.