Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 MP1 (build 7.0.1.325)

Recently, malware has come to include more and more programs that aim to:

• steal your confidential information (passwords, credit card numbers, important documents, etc.)
• track your actions on the computer and analyze the software installed on it
• gain unauthorized access to the Internet from your computer to various websites

Phishing and keyboard interceptors focus on stealing your information; autodialers, joke programs, and adware can eat up your time and money. Protecting you from these programs is what Privacy Control is designed to do.

Privacy Control includes the following modules:

• Anti-Phishing protects you from phishing.

Phishing generally consists of e-mails from would-be financial institutions that contain links to their websites. The message text convinces the reader to click the link and enter confidential information in the window that follows, for example, a credit card number or a login and password for an Internet banking site where financial operations can be carried out.

A common example of phishing is an e-email from a bank that you use with a link to the official site. By clicking the link, you go to an exact copy of the bank's website and can even see the real address in the browser, even though you are actually on a counterfeit site. From this point forward all the actions you take on the site are tracked and can be used to steal your money.

You might receive a link to a phishing site through an e-mail or by different means, such as an ICQ message. Anti-Phishing tracks attempts to open phishing sites and blocks them.

Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 threat signatures include all the sites currently known to be used for phishing. The Kaspersky Lab specialists replenish it with addresses obtained from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an international organization. You fill this list by updating application databases.

• Anti-Dialer protects you from unauthorized attempts to make connections through your modem.

Dialers generally establish connection with specific websites, such as sites with pornographic material. Then you are forced to pay for expensive traffic that you never wanted or used. If you want to exclude any number from the blocked list, you must place it on the trusted numbers list.

• The Privacy Control module intercepts attempts at unauthorized transmission of confidential data from your computer.

Confidential information includes, above all, data located in Windows Protected Storage (local passwords, e-mail client passwords, Auto-Complete information, etc.).

In addition, this Privacy Control module analyzes any attempt to transmit information from your computer using a hidden process, such as a web browser.