Combat spyware in your enterprise with these forensic tools and techniques

Sad but true: more often than not, spyware and antivirus definitions are a step behind when it comes to preventing new attacks. That's why we need other ways to detect and remove these nuisances from our systems. Investigate some manual methods of removing spyware as well as some tools that can assist in this process in this sample chapter from Combating Spyware in the Enterprise: Discover, Detect, and Eradicate the Internet's Greatest Threat. Study ways that spyware gets on a system, explore the places on a Windows-based system where spyware tends to hide, and learn how to recover information from there. Learn about tools that can detect spyware components, and enterprise-level tools that detect and remove spyware from network workstations.

Title: Combating Spyware in the Enterprise: Discover, Detect, and Eradicate the Internet's Greatest Threat
ISBN: 1597490644
Published: July 2006
Author: Paul Piccard
Chapter: CHAPTER 6: Forensic Detection and Removal
Published by Syngress Publishing