[(What is privacy protection and the law?)]

The Privacy Protection Law protects you from the random collection of personal information by state agencies. The law enables you to access and/or correct information on file which pertains to you.

Information on this page covers all of the "other" types of Internet security and privacy products including Ad-Blocking, Browsers, Browser Clean-Up, Cookie Managers, Email Privacy, Multiple Features, Password Manager & Form Filler, Private Browsing, Web Bugs, and Privacy Resource Sites.

Basic Internet security measures including ISP online filters, firewall, and virus, Trojan, worm, spyware and spam protection are only the beginning. For families, software to protect kids is needed. If you keep sensitive personal information and/or documents on your computer, they should be password protected or encrypted. If you dislike the idea of companies tracking your surfing habits, you need software to erase your browser tracks and manage cookies. If you prefer to install fewer products with more features, take a look at our page on Internet security suites or other products with multiple features on this page.

[(What is privacy?)]

The word "privacy" has been used to describe many concerns with the modern world. It is a complex concept even before other concerns are lumped with it. The concept of "privacy" deserves to be carefully examined. It defies easy definition, and many proposals to protect privacy have gone forward without a clear articulation of what privacy really is.

Importantly, privacy is a personal, subjective condition. One person cannot decide for another what his or her sense of privacy should be.

An important conclusion flows from this latter observation. That is that government regulation of the private sector in the name of privacy can only create confidentiality or secrecy rules based on the guesses of politicians and bureaucrats. The better way to protect true privacy is to distribute decisions about how personal information is used to the people affected.

While privacy is held up as one of our highest values, people also constantly share information about themselves by allowing others to see their faces, learn their names, learn what they own, and learn what they think. In fact, it is a desirable lack of privacy that allows people to interact with one another socially and in business. This does not mean that people should lose control over the information they want to keep private. It means that generalizations about privacy are almost always wrong.

[(What is zero-day attack?)]

♦The zero-day attack is the exploitation of unpatched software vulnerabilities.It is also known as a zero hour attack, takes advantage of computer vulnerabilities that do not currently have a solution.Typically, a software company will discover a bug or problem with a piece of software after it has been released and will offer a patch another piece of software meant to fix the original issue. A zero day attack will take advantage of that problem before a patch has been created.
It is named zero day because it occurs before the first day the vulnerability is known.