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This glossary contains many of the terms you will find throughout the SpywareRemove.com website.

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namespace providers (NSPs)
Namespace providers are DLLs that take advantage of Winsock APIs to penetrate into the TCP/IP stack. Namespace providers can divert data traffic from one website to an intermediary.

network aware
A virus or a worm are regarded as network aware when one of the ways of multiplication is to look for the network for open shares.

Network firewall
A network firewall guards a computer network against illegal access and is considered to be the first line of protection in guarding a computer network against external threats. Usually, data packets entering or leaving a network go through a firewall, which checks each packet and drops those that do not meet specified criteria. Network firewalls may also be configured to limit access to the outside from internal users. In general, Network firewalls may be hardware devices, software programs, or a combination of the two.

NIPS: Network Intrusion Prevention System
A program or a device which observes network traffic and prevents from assaults on a network or a system. See also HIPS, IPS.

NSLookup
A program that queries Internet domain name servers (DNS). Nslookup has two modes: interactive and non-interactive. Interactive mode lets the user to query name servers for information about various hosts and domains or to print a list of hosts in a domain. Non-interactive mode is used to print just the name and requested information for a host or domain. Given an IP address or a DNS address, it will look up and show the corresponding DNS or IP address.

NTFS (new technology file system)
The default formatting system for disk drives utilized by Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003. After updating, NTFS specification is to deal with new characteristics such as larger hard disks and expanded drive support.

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