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What is Adware? |
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Crystal wrote a great article on business cards last week. I suspect that there is more to come from her, |
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but I can not resist giving my two cents on this subject. So, here are two things that I want to encourage. |
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First, always, Always, ALWAYS, include a phone number on a business card. A business card is a point of |
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contact whereby you are giving your contact information to the other person. Why make it difficult for |
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them! Don't waste their time or your money if you don't want to give a phone number. I know that this |
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sounds harsh, but this is an issue that needs to be driven home. By the way, I also encourage people to |
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put an email address on the card. This is fast becoming as important as a phone number. |
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Second, if at all possible, put your picture on the card. People remember these cards above others. |
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Over and over again, I get comments about my card and how much they enjoy having the picture. It allows |
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the recipient to remember who the card came from. |
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Our definition: Any software application in which advertising banners are displayed while the program is running is called Adware. And any software that sends data back to a third party - WITHOUT ASKING the user - is [[Spyware]]. |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/ Business cards]] |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/business-cards.php Business cards]] |
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This means that a software can be Adware and Spyware at the same time! More importantly, not all Adware is Spyware and most Spyware is NOT easily detected by displaying ads. |
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* [[http://www.globalflights.org/cheap-flights.php Cheap Flights ]] |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/cheap-business-cards.php Cheap business cards]] |
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What is Spyware? |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/catalog-printing.php Catalog Printing ]] |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/free-business-cards.php Free business cards ]] |
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Our definition: Spyware is [[software]] that transmits information back to a third party without notifying the user. |
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* [[http://www.voip-guide.org voip]] |
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* [[http://www.secure-network.info/firewall.php firewall]] |
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Note: Some privacy advocates also call legitimate access control, filtering, [[Internet]] monitoring, password recovery, security or surveillance software "Spyware" because it could be used without notifying the users. |
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* [[http://www.globalflights.org flights]] |
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* [[http://www.ecar-rentals.com car rental]] |
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* http://www.adware.info/ |
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* [[http://www.secure-network.info network security]] |
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* [[http://www.cruise-guide.org cruises]] |
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Advertising Spyware |
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Stealth advertising components that are installed by some "shareware" products (and sometimes, legitimately purchased commercial software) and may collect personal information from your computer. These "adbots" are usually tied to a dodgy shareware program you have installed. |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/business-cards-online.php Business cards online ]] |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/business-credit-cards.php Business credit cards ]] |
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* http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/full-color-business-cards.php Full color business cards]] |
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[[SpyWare]] [[LookUp]] [[DataBase]] |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/magnetic-business-card.php Magnetic business card]] |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/business-cards-case.php Business cards case]] |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/powerful-business-cards.php Powerful business cards]] |
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* [[http://www.ebusiness-cards.org/future-of-business-cards.php Future of business cards]] |
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[[AdAware]] [[SpyWare]] Remover: |
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* [[http://www.predictive-dialers.org/voip.php Voip]] |
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* http://lavasoft3.element5.com/ |
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* http://lavasoft3.element5.com/support/download/ |
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Latest revision as of 21:50, 4 November 2005
What is Adware?
Our definition: Any software application in which advertising banners are displayed while the program is running is called Adware. And any software that sends data back to a third party - WITHOUT ASKING the user - is Spyware.
This means that a software can be Adware and Spyware at the same time! More importantly, not all Adware is Spyware and most Spyware is NOT easily detected by displaying ads.
What is Spyware?
Our definition: Spyware is software that transmits information back to a third party without notifying the user.
Note: Some privacy advocates also call legitimate access control, filtering, Internet monitoring, password recovery, security or surveillance software "Spyware" because it could be used without notifying the users.
Advertising Spyware
Stealth advertising components that are installed by some "shareware" products (and sometimes, legitimately purchased commercial software) and may collect personal information from your computer. These "adbots" are usually tied to a dodgy shareware program you have installed.