![]() One of the newest types of Viral infection has been dubbed ransomware and can literally hold your personal data to ransom.Ī common type of Ransomware is CryptoLocker this trojan targeted computers running Windows Operating Systems although more recently ransomware has been found on Mac OS X. Once hacked in they can then use your computer to send spam emails of themselves to all of the people in your address book or launch attacks on other computers. Some modern trojan viruses and worms can give control of your computer to an attacker. Often the software does not duplicate itself like a virus, which is why it is almost never detected when a simple anti-virus program like the commonly used McAfee, Norton, Kaspersky, AVG, AVAST, ESET, Panda, FSecure and Bitdefender anti virus scans are run. Spyware has often been referred to as a virus, but this is not wholly accurate. Malware can sometimes include traditional viruses and worms, which are usually destructive in some way - these can delete files, wreck the operating system and change the behaviour of your computer. This software infects your computer, making it behave in a way which you have not approved of. These days, the term malware refers to a large variety of software which all has one thing in common: it is unwanted software which someone else wants to run on your computer.
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