Viruses A computer virus is a program or piece of code that is
loaded onto your computer without your knowledge and runs against
your wishes. It is deliberately designed to interfere with your
computer. Viruses often perform some type of harmful activity on
infected hosts, such as stealing hard disk space or CPU time,
accessing private information, corrupting data, displaying
political or humorous messages on the user's screen, spamming their
contacts, or logging their keystrokes
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Phishing Phishing is a fraud attempt, usually made through
email, to steal your personal information. Phishing is an attempt
to get information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card
details and sometimes money
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Popup blocker Popup blocker is a efficiency that prevents Web
site popups from displaying. The challenge with this software is to
dispose a valid popup from an advertisement.
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firewall Firewall is software or hardware that checks
information coming from the Internet or a network, and then either
blocks it or allows it to pass through to your computer, depending
on your firewall settings. Firewall can help prevent hackers or bad
software (such as worms) from gaining access to your computer
through a network or the Internet.
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Spam Email spam targets individual users with direct mail
messages. Email spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet
postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for
addresses.
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Hacking Hacking is modifying the features of a system, in order
to succeed a purpose outside of the creator's original plan,
hackers usually hack just for a challenge and to see if they can
succeed into getting in to your computer and data
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Anti virus Antivirus software is a computer program that
detects a virus or others such as Trojans and takes action to
disarm or remove the bad software programs such as viruses and
worms. they are specifically designed to remove viruses from your
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Protecting your computer Effective Protection will help protect
against your computer being infected with viruses and spyware that
could result from your online activities that seem completely
harmless such as searching the internet, downloading, playing games
and even using email. it will safeguard you against things such as
fraud and identity theft.
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Identity theft Identity theft is a type of theft where you
steal someone's identity and that person pretends to be someone
else by assuming that person's identity, usually as a method to
gain access to resources or obtain credit and other benefits in
that person's name.