Virus Support: Multiple Malware

Multiple Malware

There are instances where more than one malware infect at a same time because of many vulnerabilities and many ways that different malware can attack on a PC. It leads to severe situations and that will crash the PC entirely. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Virus: Email Spoofing

Email Spoofing

E-mail spoofing is the forgery of an e-mail header so that the message 

appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the 

actual source. Distributors of spam often use spoofing in an attempt to 

get recipients to open, and possibly even respond to, their solicitations. 

Spoofing can be used legitimately. Classic examples of senders who 

might prefer to disguise the source of the e-mail include a sender

reporting mistreatment by a spouse to a welfare agency or a 

"whistle-blower" who fears retaliation. However, spoofing anyone other 

than yourself is illegal in some jurisdictions.

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Fake virus alerts (Rogue Software)

Rogue security software, also known as "scareware," is software that appears to be beneficial from a security perspective but provides limited or no security, generates erroneous or misleading alerts, or attempts to lure users into participating in fraudulent transactions.

What is rogue software?

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Diffferent Types of Computer Threats

Threats to your computer system, data, and identity come in many different forms, a few of the most common are listed as follows:

Viruses:

A virus is a self-replicating program that is designed to damage or degrade the performance of a computer. A virus is replicated by being copied or by initiating its copying to another program, computer boot sector or document. Viruses can be classified into four different categories as follows:

File Infector

A File infector virus when executed on a system will seek out other files and insert its code into them. The programs with .EXE and .COM extensions are the most commonly targeted, but a file infector virus can target any executable file.

This infection is most commonly distributed via compromised networks, over the web via drive-by, or from a corrupted media (CDRW, flash media).

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