Computer Virus

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.
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Some Different Types of Viruses:

  1. Boot Sector Virus: This Virus infected by system boot sector Remove Boot Programs.
  2. File Viruses: A File Deleting Virus is designed to delete critical files which are the part of Operating System or data files.
  3. 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.
  4. Browser Hijacker: This virus Change your browser home page and Redirect other page and show unwanted Pop-Pup and ads.
  5. 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.
  6. 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

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