What is a Malware?

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, it can be a software which sends your personal credentials like your credit card number your Facebook and Gmail accounts credentials , it might be a program which creates a backdoor into your system for unauthorized access and so forth. So there are a number of malware which can mess up differently with your system in different ways. So what are these malwares and how to prevent these malwares are revealed in the rest of the post .

Types of Malware

Malware are categorizes in different categories:
1. Virus
2. Spyware
3. Rootkits
4. Trojan horse
5. Worms
6. Adwares
7. Spam bots
8. Browser hijacking softwares

How to prevent malware attacks to safe yourself?

1. You can easily protect yourself and your system by means of anti-malwares. There are a lot of anti viruses available in the market, which provides different protections to you e.g, real time protection. These anti viruses are Avira, quick heal and so forth. But da da da these are paid and limited up to an asked number of systems. But remember you are on the compuerflicks we tell you the best tricks. You not need to worry about these paid anti virus softwares because I have an alternate to you which is exactly free and reside in your system all the time. You would probably heard or saw in your system a software named Windows Defender. This is the best anti virus service provided by Microsoft. I only use windows defender to protect my system and believe me I'm very happy with my computer and what was the last virus attack on my system I don't remember at all.
2. One another thing to keep in mind use your system software firewall. Turn your firewall ON to restrict the unauthorized access in your system, because a lot of malwares creates a backdoor into your system for unauthorized access and firewall prevent them.
3. Keep your antivirus up-to date for latest malware definitions in order to keep you safe from any latest designed malware.

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