Malware are viruses, adware, spyware, Trojan horses and other similar malicious software that harm the operating system of a computer. They must be prevented in order to experience a smooth operating computer system. These malware slow down system’s speed and cause other problems and even can crash a system.
The word Malware has actually been derived by combining two words that are ‘software’ and ‘malicious’. There are broadly eight kinds of malware generally found or read about. They are worm, Trojan horse, hijackers, spyware, virus, adware, backdoor and dialer. These must be prevented in all circumstances. In case they infect your computer immediate removal of these malware is suggested to avoid corruption of data stored in your computer. Malware are considered to be a big threat to the overall health of the computer system. In order to get rid of them one can load antivirus software. Formatting the computer is the ultimate step to get rid of the malware because that would eventually delete everything off the computer.
Anti viruses that are known to be working like magic are McAfee, Norton, K7 security, Avast, AVG, Kaspersky, BitDefender, Trend Micro, Microsoft Security Essentials and ESET Nod32. The anti-viruses offer free download of their trial version that works for a limited time limit, which is generally thirty days. Their full version can be bought. Few of them also offer the facility of downloading the complete versions for full protection of your computer all the time. Whenever you connect to the internet the anti-virus automatically updates itself to include protection for the new found threats.
Anti-malware and super anti-spyware are also useful for your computer. On loading them in your computer they scan the computer, detect all the possible infections and throw them out. They can track even those infections that an antivirus can’t.
You may also choose to remove all the malware that you have found on your system manually. Remember malware sometimes hide themselves in hidden files. All of them must be explored for complete removal of the malware.
For the safety of your computer you must ensure that the antivirus software is up to date. If your antivirus does not update itself automatically, then you need to do it every now and then. Symatec is a website that allows free online scanning. You may take help of that too. Lava soft USA is a website that offers anti spyware.
It must be remembered that you must always keep a back up of all your useful data as a malware is capable of corrupting any file(s). A firewall software would not disappoint you in keeping your computer safe from malware. You must also be highly alert whenever you alter your registry.
For better safety of your computer, you must not open suspicious emails and download content from unsafe or suspicious websites; they might contain malware. You must also be very careful while opening a new website. Open it only if you trust it. Who knows, it might contain some malware and download these executables to your computer! Go to the areas on the internet you are very sure of to protect your computer against all possible malware.
