Articles of category "Malicious software"

Wabbit - this is the uncommon form of malicious ware or malware as it is commonly called a quick hitting nuisance that corrupts your computer and can cause it to crash. Here we will look at what a wabbit is, how it works, some of the main versions like a bash fork bomb and how they infect and corrupt your computer and some methods to prevent getting attacked.

Malware stands for malicious software - things like viruses and Trojan horses that can cause headaches for PC users. By clicking on an unfamiliar web link, or installing software or even by opening an email, it is possible to infect your computer with malicious software, which can cause anything from system slowdowns, to infringed privacy, to the loss of data. If certain precautions are taken, it is a fairly simple process to keep your computer free from malware.

Data logger is a kind of software to track data. These applications are able to track your activity to send it later to the developer of the program. What this means is that the creator of such an application is powered to know what you are doing when at your computer, track the documents you open, websites you visit and keystrokes you do. Sound unpleasant, true? Well, that is the sad truth of the modern life enchanted with the Internet.

Dialers are computer applications to create a connection to the Internet through the analogue telephone line or ISDN. Most of the operating systems have the inbuilt programs of the kind, which operate through the PPP (Point-to-Point-Protocol). However, there are also dialers to call certain numbers which results in huge phone bills you find in your mailbox every month.

Exploitation is something sounding very unpleasant. No, we are not going to talk about slavery or whatever. Our article is devoted to such a phenomenon as a computer exploit virus. You can understand its main feature from the name itself. Exploitation is the main activity of these applications, undoubtedly malicious ones. But what do they do and how? Read along to find it out.

Wabbits are the self replicating computer applications. Wabbits don't infect programs and documents of the system, which makes them different from viruses. Computer network capabilities are not used by wabbits to spread, which makes them different from worms. The only purpose of a wabbit is to multiply replicate itself on one particular computer. What for? Read ahead and find out.

A rootkit is a kit of tools which is used by an attacker after he has cracked a computer system, these tools are to help the intruder set up access to the attacked system and use it for their purposes which are mostly often extremely malicious. There are rootkits for various operating systems including Linux and different versions of Microsoft Windows. Read the article to find out more.

Year 2003 was marked with a huge disaster in the world of computers. A worm exploiting the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) was attacking Windows machines all over the world, rapidly spreading across the whole World Wide Web. However, the harmful effects caused by Blaster worm were considered to be less serious than those caused by the previous versions of worms.

In a computer system, backdoor is a way of ignoring normal authentification process to obtain the remote access to a computer, while remaining invisible and hidden to any inspection which may occur. The backdoor may be a separate program, or update the executable of the existing application, so it becomes a legitimate program, infected by the backdoor code.

When talking about computer software, the term Trojan horse is used to denote a malicious application, which is masked under a legitimate software program. This term was derived from the well-known myth of the Trojan horse. In the process of the Troy siege, the Greeks gave a large horse made of wood to the Trojans who thought it was a gift and moved the horse inside their city. Well, the horse appeared to be full of Greek soldiers, who left the horse at night to open the city gates to the Greek army.

Virus scan is usually done by the antivirus software, which has to be installed onto your computer. Virus scan is a very important feature of such applications, because it is obviously easier to block the installation of the malicious software than to remove it after it has already caused some harm. There are many virus scanners available today, so one should make a clever choice to choose one fitting their needs best.

I think none of you likes those annoying ads popping around when you surf the Web or just work with your PC offline. Do you know where all that naughty stuff comes from? I can tell you - that is adware. You can easily download adware when surfing the Internet, very often you might not even notice that you have some new application on your computer. Adware applications rarely ask for user's consent, installing themselves freely wherever they wish to.

Malware is one of the most serious problems on the Internet today, along with spam and viruses. The point is that the ordinary user usually cannot fight malware, because of the 'beneath' way it operates. Malware can redirect you while you are searching, it can install some additional bars to your browser, bring up naughty pop-ups, track your surfing activity, slow down you computer. Yes, you got it right. Malware is sonething horrible

What is the spyware software? These applications install themselves onto your computer to track your activity and send the data about your activity to some third parties. Don't like it? Well, who does? However, this is the fact of today's Internet and you can hardly find someone who hasn't suffered from the spyware. Is there something to fight these malicious applications? Yes, there is plenty of methods, and we will have a look on some further in this article.

Computer viruses are a fact of life, and it is difficult to find a computer user who has never encountered a virus. There is a huge amount of different types of viruses, and while some are merely a nuisance, there are others that can severely comprise the security of your machine, and in some cases actually destroy data itself. There are, however, many tools for avoiding a virus, and below you'll find a quick guide to avoiding viruses.