Problems A Computer Virus Can Cause

Problems A Computer Virus Can Cause
What is virus ?
Virus is the worst enemy of a system that can cause multiple damages to it and sometime may prove fatal for the entire system. If you don’t take care of the issue properly it is possible that you have to spend a lot of money to get a new one. If a system acquire virus, there is abundant possibility that you gonna loss all your necessary information as drive or software can often crash due to virus attack.
Trojans: the Sneaky Computer Threats
Worms: The Self-Replicating Computer Threats
Spyware: Annoying Threats to your Computer
These three are the types of viruses.
How to get to know that your computer is attacked by ?  What are the symptoms of a computer virus?
Your computer may be infected if you recognize any of these malware symptoms:
-Slow computer performance
-Erratic computer behavior
-Unexplained data loss
-Frequent computer crashes
  Lets come to actual topic , damages caused by viruses . Viruses can cause variety of damages which varies in severity the most fatal virus is spyware . Spyware might seem like viruses, but they dont replicate themselves. This technically will be fatal  to people who unknowingly download spyware to their computers. This threat is usually contracted through peer-to-peer file sharing. If you download  movies, music,or software illegally, then you have possible chances of installing spyware. Spyware may collect personal information and can configure your computer to change your homepage, add additional programs and can cause your computer to crash. Many criminals get to know about your private information due to spyware. Which means your bank account number and passwords and other private information could be at risk . This make them to commit some fraud with you easily .
Other viruses can result in your file missing or corrupted file . Files stored in hard disk can lost forever without let you know .it seems like a nightmare that your whole project is beholden by virus and you are standing all the way hopeless . All you can do now is start it all over again which might be very time consuming . Suppose you are doing a work which you need to be performed urgently virus will effect it by making system to get  slow down . Buffer overflow is also a result of virus attack that affects
a system very badly. Due to buffer overflow, a system often shuts down, which is not only embarrassing, but also an irritating situation as well.
Only way to get rid of these damages from virus all you can do is some prevention and installing some sort of restrictions against virus . Following are the prevention and restrictions :
 -Use antivirus protection and a firewall.
-Get antispyware software
-Always keep your antivirus protection and antispyware software up-to-date
-Update your operating system regularly
-Increase your browser security settings
-Avoid questionable Web sites
-Only download software from sites you trust. Carefully evaluate free software and file-sharing applications before downloading them.
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