Malware

Malware

1. Adware

2. Pharming

3. Trojan

   • A trojan appears to be a harmless application - a downloaded game for example. You play the game, but meanwhile it is running in the background carrying out its real intent - maybe letting someone else access to your computer.

4. Computer Virus

   • This is a piece of code that is designed to replicate itself throughout the computer or network. For example it will add itself to a file on your computer and, every time the file is opened, the virus runs and once more seeks out other files to infect. Viruses can be difficult to get rid of since, if a single infected file is left, it will eventually re-infect many other files on your system.

5. Spyware

6. Click fraud

7. Ransomeware

8. Rootkits

9. Scareware

10. Worm

    • This behaves just like a virus, but does not necessarily harm files. Instead, it tries to copy itself so many times that the whole system runs out of resources and crashes.