Protection from spyware and adware

Norman Ad-Aware

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Spyware and Adware include malware like "Trojans", Web Bugs, Advertiser Software, Dialers, Parasites, Scumware, Browser hijackers, Keyboard sniffers, Monitoring Software and more. These types of malware are often made by publishers that allow them to snoop on your browsing activity, see what you purchase and send you "pop-up" ads. They can slow down your PC, cause it to crash, and record your credit card numbers and passwords. If you’re like most Internet users, chances are you’re probably infected with these files. Simply surfing the Internet, reading email, downloading music or other files can infect your PC without you knowing it. Real-time detection, blocking and removal of such malware is becoming more and more imperative, and the only way to do so is to use tools dedicated to perform this tasks, Norman Ad-Aware is such a tool.

Norman Ad-Aware SE Plus Edition
Norman Ad-Aware SE Plus edition offers you comprehensive tools in the battle against Spyware and Adware, securing your privacy. The Plus edition includes real-time protection through the Ad-Watch real-time monitor which allows you not only to detect privacy threats to your computer but also block them from integrating into your system in the first place! It is easy to install and manage and it updates itself over the Internet.

Norman Ad-Aware SE Professional Edition
Norman Ad-Aware SE Professional Edition offers you the highest level of protection from known Spyware, Data-mining, aggressive advertising, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, and tracking components. The new Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology protects you from both known and unknown variants of these threats; and with the real-time protection of Ad-Watch you can block suspicious processes and browser hijack attempts from affecting your system.
Norman Ad-Aware SE Professional Edition also includes the process browser Process-Watch which allows you to browse, scan and analyze processes running on your system. You can easily scan for, and terminate known suspicious processes and their associated modules. In addition it is easy to install and manage and it updates itself over the Internet.

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Features of Norman Ad-Aware SE Plus Edition

• Real-time protection with Ad-Watch
  Ad-Watch is the real time monitor included in the Norman Ad-Aware SE PlusEdition. Ad-Watch goes beyond what other security suites offer by adding a proactive layer of protection to your system. It runs silently in the background, watching for Malware/parasites that try to install on or modify your system.
  While Norman Ad-Aware SE detects and cleans your system from known Malware and advertising parasites, Ad-Watch goes even further by catching these programs before they can integrate into your system.
  You can lock the start-up sections of your registry, block possible and actual browser hijack attempts, block suspicious processes, lock executable file associations, block malicious cookies, block pop-ups, and using the all new CSI technology it can protect you from unknown variants as well.
  This version of Ad-Watch includes a site manager where you can edit the included pop-up blacklist. It also includes a new rule editor that allows you to configure Ad-Watch to pre-allow changes to the registry.
• On-demand scan
  Norman Ad-Aware SE Professional Edition also includes an on-demand scanner which scans your system for any security threats related to Spyware and Adware. The scanner can be configured according to user preference. Norman have made a default configuration that performs an in depth scan of the system, this scan can be set to run at start-up, ensuring that you have clean system every time you start.
• Pop-up blocker
  The popup blocking is designed to be user configurable and sites can easily be added to or removed from the sites list. Norman Ad-Aware is supplied with an extensive “site black list" which will be installed during installation. You can also create a custom sites file in Notepad. The file should contain one partial or full domain name per line.
• Internet update of definition files
  Keeping the product updated is a must in order to stay protected against Spyware. To make this task as trivial as possible Norman Ad-Aware definition files are updatable over the Internet, by just clicking a button. The definition files are then downloaded and installed without the need for user intervention.
• Rules creator for pre-defined blocking exclusions
  By defining rules the user can configure Ad-Watch to pre-allow changes to the registry. You can set up rules to allow certain registry keys and/or registry values to be changed.
• Proactive code sequence identification technology
  Norman Ad-Aware uses a new Code Sequence Identification technology to identify new and unknown variants of known targets. This technology works proactively and is designed to detect unknown treats based on behavior.
• Statistics
  After a scan is performed you will be given detailed statistics of the scan result. It includes the number of critical incidents (Spyware) detected, groups of incidents by their Spyware family names, total detected this scan and the overall total detected since the statistics module was last reset. Also provided is a website link to a detailed description of the different Spyware detected and the ability to export the log file as well as other more in-depth features.
• Additional features of Norman Ad-Aware Plus
  - Safety option that allows you to write protect sensitive system files such as the Hosts file
  Extended protection against DLL-injection, SE can unload process modules on the fly
  - Scans registry branches of multiple user accounts
  - Extended Scanning for known and unknown/possible Browser-Hijackers
  - Scans and lists alternate Data-streams on NTFS volumes
  -Write protect system files after repair
  - Limit drive selection to fixed drives
  - Ad-Watch now supports Cookie Blocking
  

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Features of Norman Ad-Aware SE Professional Edition

• Real-time Protection with Ad-Watch
  Ad-Watch is the real time monitor included in the Norman Ad-Aware SE Professional. Ad-Watch goes beyond what other security suites offer by adding a proactive layer of protection to your system.
  It runs silently in the background, watching for Malware/parasites that try to install on or modify your system. While Norman Ad-Aware SE detects and cleans your system from known Malware and advertising parasites, Ad-Watch goes even further by catching these programs before they can integrate into your system. You can lock the start-up sections of your registry, block possible and actual browser hijack attempts, block suspicious processes, lock executable file associations, block malicious cookies, block pop-ups, and using the all new CSI technology it can protect you from unknown variants as well.
  This version of Ad-Watch includes a site manager where you can edit the included pop-up blacklist. It also includes a new rule editor that allows you to configure Ad-Watch to pre-allow changes to the registry.
• Supports network installation
  Norman Ad-Aware Professional version supports network distribution with the use of tools like MSI and SMS. To ensure that machines using Norman Ad-Aware in the network are updated, it can be configured to get updated from a central update server. It has mapped and UNC share support as well as the ability to use corporate native push technology, login scripts etc.
• Process Browsing with Process-Watch
  Norman Ad-Aware SE Professional Edition comes with Process-Watch, a powerful process viewer/manager. It allows browsing, scanning, and termination of running processes (and their associated modules), as well as using installed extensions to further analyze a running process or module.
  Process-Watch shows you a snapshot of all the running processes and their associated modules at the time Process-Watch is launched.
  Process-Watch displays two lists of information, the currently running processes in the system and a module list showing the modules the selected process has loaded into memory.
  Process-Watch allows you to quickly terminate any running process or unload a module. You can scan the processes to see if there are any known offending processes running and terminate them if necessary. You can also create a Hexdump of the process memory or dump the process memory to disk.
• On-Demand scan
  Norman Ad-Aware SE Professional Edition also includes an on-demand scanner which scans your system for any security threats related to Spyware and Adware. The scanner can be configured according to user preference. Norman have made a default configuration that performs an in depth scan of the system, this scan can be set to run at start-up, ensuring that you have clean system every time you start.
• Pop-up blocker
  The popup blocking is designed to be user configurable and sites can easily be added to or removed from the sites list. Norman Ad-Aware is supplied with an extensive “site black list" which will be installed during installation. You can also create a custom sites file in Notepad. The file should contain one partial or full domain name per line.
• Internet update of definition files
  Keeping the product updated is a must in order to stay protected against Spyware. To make this task as trivial as possible Norman Ad-Aware definition files are updatable over the Internet, by just clicking a button. The definition files are then downloaded and installed without the need for user intervention.
• Rules creator for pre-defined blocking exclusions
  By defining rules the user can configure Ad-Watch to pre-allow changes to the registry. You can set up rules to allow certain registry keys and/or registry values to be changed.
• Proactive Code Sequence Identification technology
  Norman Ad-Aware uses a new Code Sequence Identification technology to identify new and unknown variants of known targets. This technology works proactively and is designed to detect unknown treats based on behavior.
• Statistics
  After a scan is performed you will be given detailed statistics of the scan result. It includes the number of critical incidents (Spyware) detected, groups of incidents by their Spyware family names, total detected this scan and the overall total detected since the statistics module was last reset. Also provided is a website link to a detailed description of the different Spyware detected and the ability to export the log file as well as other more in-depth features.
• Other features
  Other important features of Norman Ad-Aware Professional Edition include
  - Support for separate removal log files
  - Allows adding a reference summary/index to log files
  - Safety option that allows you to write protect sensitive system files such as the Hosts file
  - Extended protection against DLL-injection, SE can unload process modules on the fly
  - Both Ad-Watch and Process Watch uses the CSI (Code Sequence Identification) technology to identify new and known variants of known targets
  - Scans registry branches of multiple user accounts
  - Extended Scanning for known and unknown/possible Browser-Hijackers
  -Ability to scan and lists alternate Data-streams on NTFS volumes
  - Write protect system files after repair
  - Limit drive selection to fixed drives
  - Option to create a Hexdump of the process memory or dump the process memory to disk
  - Ad-Watch supports Cookie Blocking

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