SOFTWARE PRODUCT FOR SEARCHING AND DETECTING SPYWARE-TYPE PROGRAMS

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18372/2410-7840.24.16862

Keywords:

Spyware, malware, software, scanner, keylogger, Windows

Abstract

To date, the availability of high-quality antivirus software in the system cannot fully guarantee that the user's personal information will not fall into the wrong hands. Despite the fact that the methods of searching for and clearing potentially dangerous software codes are updated daily, there is a category of programs that the operating system does not regard as a threat, since programs of this type do not always aim to damage and/or destroy information that is valuable to the user. We are talking about so-called spyware. The main feature of such programs is that they use standard methods used by a number of other programs to collect information from the system. This means that they can not only collect, process and transmit the collected data to third parties, but also remain invisible to both the user and the security software. In this paper, we considered the problems of spyware-type programs, the features of their operation and detection. The system monitor subtype of spyware was described in more detail. In the Microsoft Visual Studio C # programming environment, a software product was developed to scan the system for programs that could potentially collect, process, and transmit user information without the latter's knowledge. The methods and functions that this program uses to search for spyware in the system were described.

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2022-10-11

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2022): Захист інформації

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