What is Virus?
There are 2 types of Viruses first one is a Biological Virus and another is software V.I.R.U.S (Vital Information Resources Under Seize). In Medical science, the virus is known as the microorganism which has abilities to replicate itself under favorable conditions, it can affect any living/dead body. Computer virus plays the same role in technology also, in technical world virus is a small piece of code/program/script which has the ability to replicate itself in any target device. Viruses are designed to harm the target device and to steal the information.
There are millions of viruses are available on the internet and most of them can be detected by antivirus programs. Spyware, adware, ransomware, Trojan, etc. are some popular and harmful computer viruses. Viruses are designed by Hackers to steal the important information from organizations, military, government, etc. and the easiest way to inject a virus into the target system is the internet. This type of job is done by Trojans.
The Internet is open source project and it completely depends on advertising and donations, different advertisers pay lot's of money to publish their ads on the internet. Some hackers take the help of adware programs to earn some extra money from the advertisers. Adware is the virus which shows unwanted and unrelated ads to the user without any permission. Some adware's install unwanted sponsored programs (PUP's) to the system without any permission of the user.
Customer/project details are important to every organization and its security has top priority for every organization. Hackers use Ransomware viruses to encrypt this confidential data and demand for high money to decrypt this data.
These are the details of few popular virus types you can google it for more.Hackers use a number of different ways to affect the life of every normal user, Hackers use different viruses to steal user's contact details, social media accounts and use these details for illegal activities and this will affect the personal and social life of the victim.
How do I find if my device is infected with viruses?
- The best way to find out infection is using the antivirus program.
- Use task manager and check for any suspicious processes.
- Use genuine programs.
- Viruses start some extra unwanted and unnecessary processes and consume all system resources this results in serious performance issues and effectively slow down the system.
The Internet is the root of all viruses, every hacker prefers internet as a medium to inject the virus into the target system. Prefer these tips for online shopping safety.
A phishing attack is more harmful than any other virus attack.
