Viruses: the different types

To be able to protect against viruses, it is useful to know what they do and how they look. It is known that they want to distribute, infect files, ... They provide load.

Viruses: the different types

* The types in a row with short explanation
* Macro Virus
* Virus Removal Software
* Boot Sector Virus
* Trojan horse
* Viruses in general


Species in a row with short explanation
Very dangerous:

* Trojan horses arise as a good program, but can cause much damage.
* Stealth viruses hide the damage, until they are removed, the problems.
* Boot Sector Viruses are on a boot diskette to boot the disk, the virus is active.
* Software Viruses infect course software if the program is opened, the virus that also.
* Hybrid viruses use several techniques to make your computer to attack.

Dangerous:

* Macro viruses infect such as Word and Excel files by the letters together to throw.
* Tunneling viruses use a technique to whether to attack the antivirus support program notes.
* Sparse infector be eg only Friday the thirteenth active, thus the attention of the virus to escape.
* Encrypt viruses can encode to hide and decoding to infect.
* Retro viruses infect the antivirus software so it can not boot or the virus itself can not recognize.
* Polymorphic viruses change of shape ever to appear on an ordinary file.

Just added:

* Virus hoaxes are false reports and is usually found in chain letters.
* Worms can spread very quickly, it is constantly trying to copy.

Virus Software
This virus will front a nesting program. If the program starts, the first active virus. It has time for other programs to infect. They are very dangerous because the virus scanner does not scan the whole program and the damage already inflicted before he is discovered. You must be very careful with freeware, some programmers deliberately infect their software.

Trojan horse
Trojan horse or Trojan Horses are very dangerous programs: they look like innocent programs, screensavers or updates but if you install it, do it their way. They can change the file format or erase and gates * disabling. Most Trojan horses do the first: they damage files and software, but they did not copy (this is exceptional). There are backdoor trojans. They do no damage but are able to open ports *. Then someone can manage your computer.

If you face any kind of virus related problems then go for antivirus support services to secure your computer

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