Selasa, 13 Agustus 2013

Know The Relevance Of Having Anti-Virus Software

By David Hennet


Knowing the importance of having anti-virus software is an important part of being a computer user. Just as your home is vulnerable to thieves so is your home network systems. Without protection, vital information can become at risk for hackers to obtain your personal and private information.

What are viruses: Virus' are program's created by people then are sent out over the internet via downloads, video, and emails. The purpose is to steal and collect information about you, meaning passwords, account numbers, email contacts and more. If you use or have more than one computer on a network those machines can become infected also.

Normal activities are interrupted or at the least made a bit harder to complete. Certain software or programs will begin to open more slowly or not open and run at all. Users will first think they need to clean out their cache or cookies to solve the problem.

Being infected by a virus can allow personal and/or private information to be stolen, including social security numbers, bank account numbers, passwords and more. In addition, access to your email accounts will help the individual to gain access and send emails in your name to everyone in your contact list, virtually infecting others.

Where do they come from: Its done by highly intelligent people that write programs to override and rewrite computer programs with well hidden and often undetectable code. Many programmers do it for fun but most for gaining access to financial records in hopes of making their bank accounts bigger while draining yours. These types of programs are released through emails, websites, videos and more recently anything you can download. Individuals all over the world are coming up with news ways to invade peoples lives through use of computers.

What are the types of malicious viruses: Worms use computer resources and slow your computers down to a crawl. This means you can hardly do anything that requires memory. It also uses your bandwidth which creates even bigger problems. Use of bandwidth will cause your provider to send you emails notifying you that your limit is almost reached or over-reached.

Constant advertisements that you have problems opening and closing is considered a Trojan. Functions you do not want to happen render your system useless and becomes a frustration for many users. Attachments that spy on you are called malware and not considered as dangerous but will infect and frustrate the user when they begin to see advertisements from places they have visited on the internet.

It is vital to have anti-virus software for computers, because its important to prevent unwanted guests from gaining this type of personal information. Its critical to protect what is yours and not let anyone steal what they did not earn on their own. No one leaves their doors unlocked and invites a thief into their home. Without having anti-virus software installed on your computer is inviting thieves in.




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