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Rootkit is a category of malware which stands for malicious software. Rootkits do not harm you on its own. Rootkits are actually designed to hide the actual fact that an operating system has been conceded, sometimes by replacing vital executable. Rootkits help malware e,g. virus and worms to disguising it in a safe sight so that an anti-malware can not find out malware in your system. When rootkits assault with your PC it hides any kind of malware, so if you scan your PC, your antivirus is not able to catch the malware, your antivirus ignores them continuously. Rootkits are very hard to replace from your system, because they are activated as your PC boot up. How to prevent Rootkits attacks to save yourself? In order to keep yourself protected from a Rootkits attack use a particular anti virus or anti malware software, which provides real time malware protection with rootkits definition. Avira, bitdefender, quickheal are the anti malwa...

Browser hijacking softwares changes your browser's setting like change your browser's home page and add some annoying animated icons on the upper menu bar of your browser. These software sometimes might be very harmful to you and can be designed to steal your cookies and personal credentials like your credit card number or your passwords. These can also be designed in such a way that they can pop up some annoying advertisement on your browser which may compel you to click on that, eventually, they distract you while you click on it by leading you on the harmful and virus containing websites. How to protect yourself from these softwares? If this kind of incident has happened to you, so you need to uninstall that software by changing up the settings of your browser. Just goto your browser setting and disable or delete them. Always try to keep yourself away from such softwares, and do not let them mess up wit...

Spyware is a category of Malware stands for malicious software, is designed to steal your browsing details, personal credentials and gathers your information surreptitiously and transmit it to the people who are interested to get your information. Information might be your browser and system information, Website visited by you, computer IP address and so forth. How to prevent spyware attacks to save yourself? 1. In order to keep yourself protected from a spyware attack use a particular anti virus or anti-malware software, which provides you real time spyware definitions. Avira, bitdefender, quickheal, windows defender are the anti virus programs which helps you to keep safe from spyware attacks. 2. Keep your anti virus up-to date for best protections. So we have learned now, What is a spyware? and how to prevent these spyware attacks in order to save you, keep learning from computerflicks. Please leave c...

Spam bots are fall under the category of malware and also Known as Spam . Spam bots is a malware basically designed to gather e-mail address from different source e.g social media and e-mail accounts in order to listing e-mail addresses for unsolicited use. An Spam bot enters into your computer and keep tracking e-mail address from your account as you login with your e-mail server. These e-mail addresses are dispatched to the author of the Spam bot so that they can get a massive amount of address, even yours to exploit. Eventually they send fake pages to entrap a user via phishing . A technique which is being used to null and void Spam bot attacks is called munging . How to prevent Spam bots attacks in order to save yourself? In order to keep yourself protected from Spam bot attack use a particular anti virus or anti-malware software, which provides real time protection. Avira, bitdefender, quickheal are the anti maiwa...

Adware also fall under the category of Malware which stands for malicious software, only when they are using to exploit vulnerabilities. Actually adwares are financially supported software which displays Ads on your computer when you're connected to the Internet. Adware used in bad manners to exploit with your system by displaying some seductive Ads and by displaying animated Ads like shooting game Ad and pull the trigger Ad and so forth. Which grab your attention and compel you to click on these sort of Ads. As you click they install a software on your system which continuously displays Ads related to the Ad what you have clicked before. How to prevent adware attacks to save yourself? 1. Never click on such Ads because they lead you on the other side which may contain spywares, virus and other Malwares. 2. Keep your anti virus or anti-malware up-to date for best protections. So we have learned now, What is Adwa...

what is POD (Ping Of Death)? " POD stands for Ping Of Death, is an attack, uses multiple ping packets to crash down a system, usually a default gateway, by continuously sending multiple request to the targeted system, because of POD attack a server or gateway deny all the requests and services to its clients." POD stands for Ping Of Death, is a kind of attack which uses a Ping packet stands for packet Internet gopher and it is minimum 56 bytes in size. Many computer could not handle a ping packet larger than the maximum IP packet size, which is 65,535 bytes in size. If a system receives a packet maximum of this size it could crash. And here is the game begins. In POD we transmit multiple Ping requests to the targeted system, which continue sends request and makes a total ping packet size of more than 65,535 bytes in size. Eventually the targeted system becomes unable to handle such a massive size of ping packets and crashes down. U...

Trojan horse is a category of malware which stands for malicious software. Trojan horse as the name implies is taken from a Greek story of Trojan War. Trojan horse plays the same role with you. You often consider a software is good to you but that software in actual is a malware, when you install that software in your system it mess up with your system and might be designed to create a backdoor in your system, so that a hacker or an intruder can access your system remotely. Trojan horse neither replicate itself nor spread itself automatically from one system to another. How to prevent Trojan Horse attacks to safe yourself? In order to keep yourself protected from a Trojan Horse attack use a particular anti virus or anti malware software, which provides real time malware protection. Avira, bitdefender, quickheal are the anti malware programs. So we have learned now, What is a Trojan Horse? and how to prevent these mal...

Worm is a category of malware which stands for malicious software. WORM (write once read many) is a malware that replicate itself without any human action. Worm replicate itself on your computer which cause performance issues by continuously writing itself over the hard disk drive, and consequences might be your hard drive crash. Worm also attach itself with your mail address and send it to the other people and spread it via network and then it effects other's system and replicate the same process to affects others. How to prevent worm attacks to safe yourself? In order to keep yourself protected from a worm attack use a particular anti virus or anti malware software, which provides real time malware protection. Avira, bitdefender, quickheal are the anti virus programs. So we have learned now, What is a worm? and how to prevent these worm attacks in order to safe you, so keep learning from computerflicks. Please leave comment...

Virus is nothing but a piece or snippet of a program, which is designed to accomplish a particular task. It gets the name VIRUS because it spread through human actions. A virus doesn't replicate itself. You bring a virus into your system by downloading files over the Internet and install them on your PC and some times you attach a corrupted file in your mails to send others, which corrupts other's systems. A virus attach itself to a document or a file to spread from one system to another. A virus might be a program which formats your hard drive, corrupts your files and keep your processor busy by sending it different instructions. A virus can be a program which hides your data means change your file attribute e.g convert your data attribute into read only format. Creeper was the first computer virus. There are so many like: 1. Brain 2. Monkey 3. I love you 4. Happy birth day How to prevent virus attacks ...

When people hear about viruses they afraid from them and want to save them-selfs from any kind of virus. Virus like a ghost for most of the people and I amend it, sometimes it might be very harmful to you. Most of the people consider every unexpected thing which is messing with their system is a VIRUS. But nothing like this, a virus is a category of malware. But let me first clear your concept that what are malware in actual and its different categories, How much they can harm you, what to do to save yourself from a malware and so forth. What is a Malware? Malware is a short for malicious software and usually designed to exploit a vulnerable action. A malware can be a program which hides your data means change your file attribute e.g convert your data attribute into read only, it might be a program which sends your computer files to the author of the malware, it can be a program which can corrupt your data, it can be a program which formats your system, ...