System information

36 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009
 phishing (on page 36);
 hacker attacks (on page 37);
 banners display (on page 37).
SPAM OR UNSOLICITED INCOMING MAIL
Kaspersky Lab's application protects users from spam. Spam is unsolicited
incoming mail often of advertising nature. Spam is an additional load on the
channels and provider's mail servers. The recipient pays for the traffic created by
Spam and non-spam mail travels slower. Therefore spam is illegal in many
countries.
Kaspersky Lab's application scans incoming Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft
Outlook Express and The Bat! messages and if, if it detects any message as
spam, it performs actions you selected, for example, moves such messages into
a special folder or deletes them.
Kaspersky Lab's application detects spam with a great degree of accuracy. It
applies several Spam filtering technologies: it detects Spam based on the
sender's address as well as words and phrases in the messages subject line; it
detects graphic spam and uses self-training algorithm for detecting Spam based
on the message text.
Anti-Spam databases contain the "black" and the "white" lists of senders'
addresses, lists of words and phrases related to various categories of spam such
as advertising, medicine and health, gambling, etc.
PHISHING
Phishing is a type of fraudulent Internet activity involving "fishing" from users of
numbers of credit cards, pins and other personal information in order to steal
their money.
Phishing is often related to internet bankers. Intruders create an exact copy of
the bank they target and then send messages to its clients on it behalf. They
notify them that due to the changes in or failure of the web banking software
users' accounts were lost and that the user must confirm or change his or her
information on the bank's website. The user clicks the link to the website created
by the intruders and enter his or here personal data there.