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Click Export or Import according to the action you need to take and then specify the
configuration file name.
4.8 Anti-Spyware
Most computer users don’t realize they are storing confidential information on their
computers that has commercial value to companies as well as hackers. With increasing
frequency, people use computers, for example, to order goods and pay their bills over the
Internet. Users are confronted (unknowingly generally) by widespread spyware - malicious
programs that collect information about their web surfing stats, their computers’ installed
applications and other private data that is sent to third persons afterwards, spyware that
tracks their actions without their consent. Spyware can change e-mail texts, modify files on
your hard disk, display annoying ads, change your browser’s homepage. If all those
weren’t enough reasons to be alarmed, resident spyware requires system resources, which
slows down your computer dramatically in some cases.
Not all programs are equally harmful - some of them regularly collect and analyze
information purposing some specific aims and some are installed by user knowingly. But
spyware gather information about you and your interests without your knowledge or
consent. Spyware is mostly used by on-line or software corporations for marketing
purposes.
Not always personal firewall protects user from the spyware threats. Fighting with Trojans
only is not sufficient now to make user feel he is strongly protected from all external
menaces.
Outpost Firewall provides the solution against spyware – Anti-Spyware plug-in. This plug-
in is designed to prevent you from unwanted and unauthorized actions performed by