What Means Computer Virus? How to Infect Your PC:
A computer virus is a malicious software program loaded onto a user’s computer without the user’s knowledge and performs malicious actions.A Computer Virus is a malicious software program “Malware” that can infect a computer by modifying or deleting data files, boot sector of a hard disk drive or causes a software program to work in an unexpected manner”.
A computer virus resides on a host computer and can replicate itself when executed. Virus can steal user data, delete or modify files & documents, records keystrokes & web sessions of a user. It can also steal or damage hard disk space, it can slowdown CPU processing.
Malware-techno |
Some Different Types of Viruses:
- Boot Sector Virus: This Virus infected by system boot sector Remove Boot Programs.
- File Viruses: A File Deleting Virus is designed to delete critical files which are the part of Operating System or data files.
- Macro Virus: These viruses are triggered when a program capable of executing a macro is run. For example, macro virus can be contained in spreadsheet files. These are written in high-level language like Visual Basic.
- Browser Hijacker: This virus Change your browser home page and Redirect other page and show unwanted Pop-Pup and ads.
- FAT Virus: FAT viruses ruin your file allocation system, which is where information about files and where to find them exists. It even destroys files and the entire directories for them.
- Multipartite Virus: This type of virus is able to infect multiple parts of a system including boot sector, memory and files. This makes it difficult to detect
No comments:
Post a Comment