"Free" Software
Almost everyone using the Internet will have downloaded more or less
software. That's a fact, and not all free
software is malicious. In
the latest years however, there has been an increasing infection risk using
shareware
or other forms of free software, where the "free" (in quotes) means
that perhaps you do pay a price, but you
may not know how high it really is.
Due to increasing competition, the advent of zombie networks (some of which
are actually commercially
manufactured, see the Malware pages), the risk is now
very high. In corporate networks, all end-user software
installation should be banned, if not for any other reason, the increased
SUPPORT COSTS.
On this page we will try to cover some of the most well-known freely
downloadable software and show you
where you stand using this software from a
risk perspective.
 | SKYPE - for the private user and
for the corporation. Port
traffic in actual examples.
|
| Desktop based search engines: GOOGLE Desktop Search (private user) and GOOGLE Desktop Search Enterprise (corporate) |
| TOR - The Onion Routing by the
Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| GOOGLE EARTH - the "killer" app of 2005, read more
here |
| AOL IM
(video chat) |
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