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Tips to prevent and correct computer against viruses and spyware
Did you know that the damage to the computer not only caused by damage or technical errors in hardware and software.
Viruses and spyware are a nuisance on a computer that is caused by external parties for various purposes such as stealing your data, damage your hardware, delete files, eliminating some functions, taking control your computer and others. Who should be very rare or may not viruses and spyware that brings advantage on the infected computer.
Computer viruses and spyware can attack your computer either online or who do not often online at the website though. Computer with a floppy or USB flash drive may be infected with software that is installed if not careful. If you have been infected by a virus or spyware, which is only active if the computer is connected to the Internet, then the virus or spyware will be active when the computer is online.
The following are various acts of prevention and improvement of computer virus or spyware either in mild or severe.
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About Spyware
Spyware is a program created in order to spy (spy). Spyware is a common threat, but can be very dangerous because, as its name suggests, the spyware that threatens the privacy and can degrade system performance and network Spyware has been widespread since 1994. At that time, a known spyware is Gator. Spyware is still exist till today. In line with technological developments, spyware originally intended for the advertising company. But now everything has changed, used to push spyrware destructive purposes.
Spyware Categories, Spyware has several categories, namely:
- Trojan / Backdoor
- Adware
- Keylogger
- DDoS agents (zombies)
- Sniffer cracked password
- Browser Helper Object
- Kazaa P2P example.
- RAT – Remote Access Tool / Trojan.
If we see there is overlap with an anti-virus that is in part a Trojan. The anti-virus solutions are generally able to detect the presence of a Trojan horse in our system. But for other categories such as adware, P2P, hacking tools, generally anti-virus can not enter this category in their detection.
Security tools
When the program already installed on your computer, it will configure to be executed each time you log on the computer, and will do the scans. When scanning is completed, it will be notified that there are a number of dangerous infections on your computer. If you attempt to remove the infection, then this program will frustrate you until you buy it.