Viruses also known as worms?

Question

How do u get rid of it and where does it come from? And what is spyware and adware

Answer 1

worms:
A worm is a malicious self-replicating computer program designed to infect multiple remote computers in attempt to deliver a destructive payload. A typical worm spreads by e-mail, in file sharing networks or through unprotected network shares. Widely spread complex parasites usually propagate themselves by exploiting certain security vulnerabilities in the targeted remote system. Most worms can infect and corrupt files, degrade overall system performance and security, steal user sensitive information or install other dangerous parasites such as backdoors or trojans. Worms are very similar to regular computer viruses and therefore can have different malicious functionality.

adware:
Adware is any computer program that displays advertisements while the application is running. Advertisements appear in a web browser, pop-up windows, special toolbars or within the host program. Adware also can gather information about user’s habits and interests and send it out through a background Internet connection. Such behavior allows adware vendors to deliver targeted advertisements to the end user and collect general statistics.

Adware is divided into parasitical and legitimate applications. Illegal advertising programs are very similar to spyware parasites and often have some of their functions. They can be installed without explicit user consent and work all the time a computer is on. However, they are less dangerous, because most of such parasites are primarily intended to collect user’s personal information for marketing and advertising, but not for criminal purposes.

Legitimate adware applications are harmless. They do not track user activity or record any vital information about the user and use an Internet connection only to receive advertisements. Lots of reputable advertising-supported products, such as Opera web browser or Eudora mail client, fall into this category. Vendors of these products use advertising as a legal revenue model that allows to distribute high-quality commercial software for free.

spyware:
Spyware is any software designed to collect user personal information and send it out through a background Internet connection without the user's knowledge and consent. Spyware silently tracks user's web browsing habits, records visited web sites and logs taken actions. This activity allows spyware vendors to gather data for marketing and advertising purposes.

Spyware form and functionality may vary depending on vendor intentions. However, a particular program that uses an Internet connection to transfer data, which can be used to identify the user, is always classified as spyware.

Some programs mistakenly called spyware actually do not collect any vital information about the user and use a background Internet channel to transfer general statistics. They do not steal your name, contacts or any other details and therefore do not violate your privacy. Lots of legal advertising applications or ad-supported products such as a legitimate web browser Opera fall into this category. Although legal adware programs potentially are able to spy on a user, they shouldn't be accused of privacy violation, as proper use of adware is a legal revenue model for many software companies that allows to distribute complex commercial products for free.

all this stuff can be removed by antispyware.

Answer 2

Viruses and spywares are programs launched in the net by people to meet their self intrests. Spywares reside in your PC and spyes your actions. Virus is meant for affecting the normal performance of the PC. I can give a few links that offer free virus and spyware removers...! Norton, AVG , Avast are free antivirus software. Ad-aware, Ewido are free spyware removers. You can download free softwares at
http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html

Answer 3

in case you cant run malwarebytes get someone to burn you the avira rescue cd its loose comes with its personal burner and really person-friendly to do.then run it on your cd rom and that's going to freshen up your equipment sufficient to run malwarebytes and end the pastime. one very last element have you ever tried renaming the malwarebytes application record to some thing like xxx.exe to work out if that works.

Answer 4

Go here and read this site. Your questions will be answered, plus some:

http://www.internetinspiration.co.uk/computer_privacy_and_security.htm

Answer 5

My friend,

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Have fun.

Tom