Malicious software, spyware, and viruses are used interchangeably when it comes to general computer infections. In recent years, being able to identify in order to remove a virus or malware requires the correct removal program. In addition, malware comes in many and varied forms, although slightly different from each other, they do the following, damage, corruption or interruption of normal use of the computer.

Malicious software, the short name is malware and spyware, software designed to spy or gain unauthorized access has many means of infecting and causing various forms of damage to a personal computer. Adware, spyware, malware, rootkits, key loggers, web hijackers, bandwidth hoarding, malicious cookies, are some of the new terms used in what we now refer to as malware.

A virus generally infects a computer and will attempt to corrupt or delete data and will also attempt to replicate and deliver copies to other computers, most often by sending copies of itself using an email program’s address book and sending an infected email to all. listed in an email contact list.

A Trojan program, also considered a virus, generally masks its harmful effect within a harmless file, such as an mp3, a photo, a video, or even a text within the body of the email that contains an attachment where one is drawn to to open. to view the internal contents. The result is that a user will try to open the file, they see what appears to be a broken file (it won’t open) but in fact the user opened the Trojan and released the virus on their computer.

Almost all types of infections also have the ability to mask their activity from being detected by removal software, be it commercial or free. They will even go so far to protect themselves by leaving registry keys to regenerate executable files, if the executable file is deleted. They will also generate new files in temporary directories and many other areas on a computer so that they can be recreated if deleted, especially after restarting the computer. In this case, the removal must be done manually, by powering a computer and loading Windows into safe mode, and individually deleting the correct files and registry keys.

There are many free and commercial antivirus programs, but most are not very effective at removing malware. Fortunately, there are tools available that are specifically designed to remove malware.