Monday, August 26, 2013

Discovering And Having Anti-Virus Software

By David Hennet


It is very important having anti-virus software installed on your computer to safegaurd yourself from malicious online attacks. A computer becomes vulnerable when a virus enters and takes over your system causing your computer to potentially slow down. Viruses steal important and personal information that hackers use to invade personal information that can lead to many different problems. Including but not limited to identity theft.

What is a Virus: Viruses come in many forms and are more harsh today than they were ten years ago. Once your system becomes infected it can begin to run slowly causing software to crash or not work at all. If your systems are on a network there is a chance that the infection will enter other machines too.

Once infected, the virus can run in the background and the users can have no clue what is happening until its to late. The system will start to run slower because crucial files may be overwritten giving hackers the access he or she is looking for. Weeks or months may pass before owners notice. The main reason someone might catch on is the operating system may slow down or unwanted programs executing at random times.

When months have gone by, vital things may have been stolen. The thief has can have access to your bank accounts and email accounts. This gives them the ability to move your money from your account to theirs. Your friends and family may also be affected if they were in your contact list or connected to your network.

Who produces such a culprit: An individual that knows his or her way around a computer and whom has knowledge of certain codes to enter may be responsible for creating virus'. They make programs to overwrite or rewrite vital system components that will erase the correct files and replace with the new files that has been created. Once done its released to websites, emails and virtually anyway that will aide the thief in damaging your systems. Most of the individuals that create such things have college backgrounds that involve computers.

What are the types of malicious viruses: Worms use computer resources and slow your computers down to a crawl. This means you can hardly do anything that requires memory. It also uses your bandwidth which creates even bigger problems. Use of bandwidth will cause your provider to send you emails notifying you that your limit is almost reached or over-reached.

Constant advertisements that you have problems opening and closing is considered a Trojan. Functions you do not want to happen render your system useless and becomes a frustration for many users. Attachments that spy on you are called malware and not considered as dangerous but will infect and frustrate the user when they begin to see advertisements from places they have visited on the internet.

Knowing the importance of having anti-virus software and its use prevents hackers from infecting your network and stealing your personal information. In today's society, people do not worry about their homes being broken into as they do their computers being hacked by vicious people trying to steal their identity. Save yourself the headache and trouble, obtain great software to prevent this from happening to you.




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