Stop shopping, banking, and other online activities that involve user names, passwords, or other sensitive information. Confirm that your security software is active and current. At a minimum, your computer should have anti-virus and anti-spyware software, and a firewall. Once your security software is up-to-date, run it to scan your computer for viruses and spyware, […]
Category: Virus
What are the symptomps to find whether your system is infected or not?
pc runs slower than usual. Stops responding computer crashes, and restarts every few minutes. Applications on the computer do not work correctly. Disks or disk drives are inaccessible. Can’t print items correctly. Unusual error messages Distorted menus and dialog boxes. There is a double extension on an attachment that you recently opened, such as a […]
Trojan Horse Attacks and preventions
According tolegend, the Greeks won the Trojan war by hiding in a huge, hollow wooden horse to sneak into the fortified city of Troy.In today’s computer world, a Trojan horse is defined as a “malicious, security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign”. For example, you download what appears to be a movie or music […]
What is Computer Worm?
A computer worm is a program which copies itself across a network.A computer worm differs from a computer virus in that a computer worm can run itself. A virus needs a host program to run, and the virus code runs as part of the host program. A computer worm can spread without a host program, […]
What is Malicious Softwares? What are the type of Malicious Softwares.
What is Malware?: Malware is a malicious software. This software include the program that exploit the vulnerabilities in computing system. The purpose of malicious software is harm you or steal the information from you.Types of Malicious Softwares:There are three characteristics of malwares: 1 Self-replicating malware actively attempts to propagate by creating newcopies, or instances, of […]