What You Should Know About Malware
Malware is a general term referring to all kinds of harmful software. In this article, we are going to briefly discuss malware, viruses and Trojan horses, and the difference between them.
The word malware is a shortened phrase for “malicious software”. Generally, malware are programs that cause damage to computer networks, storage systems, servers and computers.
Most computer users are familiar with viruses. Vundo Viruses are designed as programs or scripts that replicate and propagate from one computer to the other, within a network of computers or servers. When viruses attack, they spread files in the process. This process is done without consent from the user. A user may be unaware that a virus is spreading. A virus is wrongly defined by some people as a program that tricks a person into installing a harmful program that deletes data in the hard drive. Mostly, a virus does no harm to the data. The main function of a virus is to multiply and spread within a server or computer. The damage to a computer is done in the process of containing or countering the virus. Downloads and e-mail attachments are the main source of viruses. Memory sticks and flash drives are also responsible for spreading viruses.
Worms are a variation of viruses. A worm produces multiple copies of itself in a computer, or in each of the computers in a network.
Viruses can be detected and destroyed by a scanner. A scanner scans all the programs and the files in a computer. It will detect all malicious scripts hidden in the computer. After detection, the malicious software will destroyed. Programs with virus-like characteristics will also be destroyed. Viruses can be prevented from attacking your computer or server in the first place. Executable programs usually contain viruses, therefore, when you receive an executable file in your e-mail, you should delete it unless it is from a trusted source. Downloading files from unknown sources is also dangerous, as is exchanging files with other users.
A Trojan horse is a kind of malware that infiltrates the computer by tricking the user or computer. The computer user is of course, unaware of the entry of a Trojan horse. Just like the Greek myth of characters hiding in a sheep’s skin for the purpose of penetrating a city, the Trojan horse uses the same tactics.”Swen” is a virus that imitated the Microsoft application.
A Trojan horse is a lethal form of malware. The consequences wrought by a Trojan horse infection include loss of data, corruption of data, alteration of data, movement of data and hacking. A Trojan horse can phish passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive information. Viruses disrupt our computers, and they should be swiftly done away with.
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