How Do You Turn Norton Antivirus On and Off?

Norton Anti-virus is one of the most popular anti-virus programs for home computers. It is also a popular anti-virus program that is bundled with new computers sold by companies such as HP and Dell computing. Many computer users will want to be able to turn Norton off if they have a preferred anti-virus program or [...]

How Does Spyware Work?

Computer Spyware infects a computer without the user’s permission. Spyware can be very dangerous to your personal privacy and can serve as a gateway to additional computer malware infection on your computer. Spyware by its nature does not self-replicate, but is used to exploit holes in the security on your computer. Recent trends have seen [...]

How Does Adware Work?

Adware is considered to be any computer software that will display, download, or automatically play advertisements on your computer while the parent application is being used. Some adware is designed to violate your privacy and acts as a benign form of Spyware and is considered privacy-invasive. Many variants of Adware can also bog down your [...]

How Does a Trojan Virus Work?

Trojan Viruses take their name from the lore of the Trojan Horse. A Trojan virus is computer malware that is disguised as something useful that encourages you to download or open the file or program which contains the malware. Once opened, the Trojan virus infects your computer. They are capable of downloading or containing “payload” [...]

How Does a Computer Worm Work?

Computer worms are made to infect other computers through using the Internet to spam copies of themselves to spread. Most computer worms are damaging through their negative impact of system and network resources through their rapid and mostly uncontrolled spread. Some worms are coupled or combined with other computer malware in order to maximize their [...]

How Does a Computer Virus Work?

A computer virus is designed to infect files on a computer system through self-replication. It is capable of spreading to other computers on its own. Methods of infection include: infecting other files, email attachments, boot sectors of portable drives, instant messaging, and directly through security vulnerabilities in an Operating System or application. Not all computer [...]

How Does Computer Malware Work?

Computer Malwareis the term used to describe computer software that is designed to infect one’s computer with a computer virus, rootkit, spyware, or adware. The term malware comes from malcious (intent) + software. It is the more correct term for the majority of infections a computer will receive differing from the term computer virus which [...]

Rogue Anti-Spyware Malware – Win32.Fake Raken

Win32.Fake Raken Description

Fake Raken is one of the latest rogue anti-spyware malware programs to hit the Internet. It claims to scan your computer for malware and will display fake infection warnings after it has been installed on your computer. It will then attempt to convince you that a paid malware removal tool needs to be [...]

MS Anti-Spyware 2009

Spyware – MS Anti-Spyware Description

MS Anti-Spyware 2009 is one of the current generation of “fake” or “rogue” spyware programs that masquerade as legitimate anti-spyware programs. The primary goal of MS Anti-Spyware is to trick you into buying a paid version of the software which is really a guise to take your money and further infect [...]

Computer Malware, Types of Spyware

Computer Spyware is computer malware that infects a user’s computer without their permission. It can be used to steal your private information to a remote computer server and is known to change settings to include: 1 – The Default Search Engine Home Page, 2 – The computer’s default home page, and 3 – Serve as [...]

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