What is a Malware?

Hello Again, as promised today we are going to get familiar with general online concepts, and how do they work!

• There are many useful programs on the internet, but not all are suitable or good for your computer. Every day millions of new malwares are released into the internet,  and many of them can attack your device if you are not careful online!
• There are many types of malwares: Viruses, bots, worms, spywares,adwares,exploits,trojan-viruses and ect.
  

What are they?                                                                             

         Viruses are the most causes of infection, and your computer can be infected easily if your device is not updated and/or you do not have a full version up-to-date anti-virus(Get free trial Here (norton) ). Viruses do replicate, but they  do not spread from a device to another.

         Worms on the other hand do spread automatically, and have same characteristic as viruses.

         Trojans are viruses that do not replicate. They usually come hidden with another file, they are deadlier and more dangerous because they can create back doors(your device being monitored) and steal your information. 

spywares are bots that monitor/record system actions, same as trojan but harder to remove(requierrs anti spyware program.
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How to stay away?

1. purchase an anti virus + anti spyware(recommended)  or  download free trials of it.
2. do not open unknown or suspicious attachments(E-mail).
3. Do NOT click on unknown java updates on internet.
4. Do not download peer to peer on file sharing sites, use peer block!
5. update browsers/device regularly.