All visitors are logged and counted. Click on this icon to view the visitor-statistics. The grand encyclopedia of computer terminology This encyclopedia is compiled by produkties.uithuizen.net This explains the most common computerterms which you can encounter. This list was compiled from several sources. It does not explain HTML commands in detail because for this purpose another encyclopedia is available.The most recent update of this document can be found at: http://www.uithuizen.net/encyclopedia/terms.php Choose a list of terms you want to see .A-.Z   0-9   A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L    M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z Type a term you want to search for: and You want more information? Well click on these links: Random House Personal Computer Dictionary w      W32 ADClicker G.Trojan   WYSIWYG 98 items available in this category W32 ADClicker G.Trojan Known spyware or adware. W32.Amus.A@mm Known spyware or adware. W32.Bambo Known spyware or adware. W32.Beagle.AO@mm Known spyware or adware. W32.Blaster Known spyware or adware. W32.Blaster.Worm Known spyware or adware. W32.Denisbee Known spyware or adware. W32.dumaru.ah Known spyware or adware. W32.HLLW.Yoof Known spyware or adware. W32.Lovgate.AN@mm Known spyware or adware. W32.LXD.Mirc Known spyware or adware. W32.Mydoom.P@mm Known spyware or adware. W32.Quaters-A Known spyware or adware. W32/Korgo-N Known spyware or adware. W32Sup Known spyware or adware. W97M_SPY.A Known spyware or adware. WAIS Acronym of Wide Area Information Servers. A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and then making those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet. WAL Acronym of Write-Ahead Logging. A recovery process of a database. WAN Acronym of Wide-Area Network. A collection of computers whose interconnection network spans large distances, often by using telephone lines or microwave communications. WatchDog Known spyware or adware. WATERWORKS Known spyware or adware. Wazam Known spyware or adware. WCUP Known spyware or adware. WeatherCast Known spyware or adware. web Short for World Wide Web. Web Behavior Known spyware or adware. Web_Rebates Known spyware or adware. Webcelerator Known spyware or adware. WebCrawler Known spyware or adware. Webhancer Known spyware or adware. WebInstall Dialer Known spyware or adware. weblog A weblog or blog is a usually non-commercial listing of text, images, and/or other objects that are arranged in a chronological order. Blogs are often maintained and run by a single individual, updated daily, and/or contain random personal remark about a topic, a personal ramble, an update on the persons life and/or their current feelings. In many ways many weblogs are like a personal journal or diary or a look into another individuals life and can be a great way to learn about people, events, places, and much more from millions of people around the world. WebSavings Known spyware or adware. WebSearch Known spyware or adware. website See site. webstore A website accommodated for teleshopping. WEEDBOTZ.14 Known spyware or adware. Wengs Known spyware or adware. WEP Acronym of Wired Equivalent Privacy. An encryption technology to used in order to avoid eavesdropping on wireless networks. Whazit Known spyware or adware. WhenuDownload Known spyware or adware. WhenUSave Known spyware or adware. WhenUSearch Known spyware or adware. WhistleSoftware Known spyware or adware. WHITEBAIT Known spyware or adware. WHITEHO Known spyware or adware. whizkid A very talented computeruser or -programmer usually young of age. WhyPPC Known spyware or adware. WIA Acronym of Windows Image Acquisition. Windows Image Acquisition enables imaging programs, such as Microsoft Picture It! 2000, Kodak Imaging, or Adobe Photoshop, to communicate with imaging devices such as digital cameras and scanners. WIA supports digital still cameras and both low-end and high-end scanners; it also enables you to retrieve still images from IEEE 1394-based digital video (DV) camcorders and Universal Serial Bus (USB) Web cameras. Wifi Acronym of Wireless Fidelity. A certification for 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g equipment by the Wi-fi alliance. wildcard A character to represent other characters; examples "*"and "?" WILSEF Known spyware or adware. Win32.Mydoom.G Known spyware or adware. Win32.NetDevil Known spyware or adware. Win32.Plexus.B Known spyware or adware. Win32.StartPage Known spyware or adware. Win32.VirusScan.A Known spyware or adware. Win32/Aspam.Trojan Known spyware or adware. Win32Clf Known spyware or adware. WINBUR.B Known spyware or adware. WindFind-A Known spyware or adware. window A rectangular part of the screen that forms the graphical area wherein certain graphical programs present their information. Windows Search Bar Known spyware or adware. Windows Search Bar hijacker Known spyware or adware. Windows SyncroAd Known spyware or adware. WindUpdates Known spyware or adware. WINET Known spyware or adware. WinExplor Known spyware or adware. WinFavorites Known spyware or adware. WinFavorites/Bridge Known spyware or adware. Wink Known spyware or adware. Winmain Known spyware or adware. WINMUSCHI Known spyware or adware. Winpage Blocker Startpage hijacker Known spyware or adware. WinPoet Known spyware or adware. WinQF Known spyware or adware. Winshow Known spyware or adware. WinTools Known spyware or adware. WINTRIM Known spyware or adware. Winupie Known spyware or adware. Wireless bridge Literally a bridge between to different networks or communication standards. For example to connect wireless two wired networks through two access points. Wishbone Known spyware or adware. wizard An expert or program that is useful by the installation of complex programs. WLAN Acronym of Wireless Local Area Network. Terminology for wireless networks. A WLAN is not necessarily a Wifi network. WNAD Known spyware or adware. WOLLF.16 Known spyware or adware. Wonderland Dialer Known spyware or adware. Wonderplus Known spyware or adware. WORM 1) Acronym of Write Once, Read Many memory. A type of disk that can be written only once but read many times, like some optical disks. 2) A type of virus. Worm.Raleka Known spyware or adware. WORM_AGOBOT.FX Known spyware or adware. WRAM Acronym of Window Random Access Memory. WUKILL.A Known spyware or adware. WUpdater Known spyware or adware. WurldMedia Known spyware or adware. WurldMedia related Known spyware or adware. WWW Acronym of World-Wide Web; that part of Internet where everyone with a PC and Internet access can display information or can download information; the whole constellation of resources that can be accessed using Gopher, FTP, HTTP, telnet, USENET, WAIS and some other tools. Also the universe of hypertext server (HTTP servers) which are the servers that allow text, graphics, sound files, etc. to be mixed together. See also BBS. On August 6th 1991 Tim Berners-Lee published the first version of his hypertextsoftware on the alt.hypertext-newsgroup. It included a description of the basic concepts webserver and browser. Six months earlier Berners-Lee had constructed the first webbrowser named "WorldWideWeb". In order to avoid confusion it was later renamed to Nexus. In 1990 he had a already filed a proposal for a hypertext system to CERN where he worked at that time. The publication of this hypertextsoftware was the moment that the World Wide Web came into existence. The first webserver outside Europe was setup in the US in December 1991. A year later there were 26 webservers online. In 1996 the WWW consisted of about 340 thousand websites, while nowadays it is estimated that about 100 biljon websites are online. WYSIWYG Acronym of What You See Is What You Get; This means that data are printed as they appear on the screen. This encyclopedia is for informational purposes only. All (registered) trademarks mentioned are property of their respective owners. No infringement of third party rights intended. The author cannot garantuee that the information presented is complete or that it contains no errors.