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[Understanding the Dialect] Crimeware
The used software tools for the cybernetic crimes denominate software of illegal activities or “crimeware “. The software of illegal activities is the software that:
it is used to commit a criminal act
generally a wished software application of or hardware is not considered like
of voluntary form it allows that the crime is carried out
In the same way that the term cybernetic crime, the software term of illegal activities includes an ample range of different types from injurious or potentially injurious software.


Image However, it agrees to remember that all the used software not to commit a computer science or facilitated crime by means of computer science can be defined as software of illegal activities. Thus, for example, although a cybernetic crime is committed ¹ by means of a client of instantaneous mail, the software of the application of instantaneous mail is not considered in itself like software of illegal activities. Equally, the FTP clients can be used to commit crimes ²; nevertheless, they do not include themselves in the category of software of illegal activities.

Therefore, in the software of illegal activities programs are included that can be classified like bots, programs of registry of pulsations of keyboard, spyware (spy software), back doors (backdoors) and Trojan horses.
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