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Know About All Your Enemies

09/09/2012

 

 


Know All about Your Enemies

Whenever your computer starts acting weird and makes it difficult for you to work on, the first thing that comes to your mind is whether a virus has affected your computer.This issue is dedicated to explain the most common threats that you may face. It  gives you some details  to help treat the root cause of any problem.

Here are some definitions on these threats:

 Malware is any malicious program or software that’s designed to exploit a computer user. Malware is basically an umbrella term covering computer viruses, worms, Trojan, spyware, rootkit etc.


Virus replicates itself in computer memory when initiated by the user. They contain some malicious codes which can affect your files, your operating system or even your master boot records thereby making your computer start slow or not boot at all.
Rootkits are computer programs that are designed by attackers to gain root or administrative access to your computer. Once an attacker gains admin privilege, it becomes a cakewalk for him to exploit your system.


Trojan horse is a program that appears useful by pretending to do certain things in foreground, but in reality they are working silently in background with the only objective of harming your computer and/or stealing valuable information.It  penetrates your computer through downloading malicious software like keys, cracks, free illegal music, wares etc from an unknown source.


To be continued...
 

 

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