Glossary
Browse terms glossary to learn more about Internet security terminology
Botnet is a network of Web robots designed to launch DDoS attacks, exercise financial or identity fraud or to disrupt legitimate Web services.
Auto-Protect Blocking is a Symantec owned technology used in in Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security.
Bloodhound™ is a Symantec's own scanning technology included in Norton Internet Security and similar software.
Adware is an application that looks quite harmful at the first sight or even does something useful but can contain mailcious code that will gather information and relay it to a third party over the Internet.
