Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Virus vs. Spyware















In case you don't know virus and spyware, virus is a program in a computer that makes your computer malfunction/broken, while spyware is a program that makes too many appearing pop-up in your screen and a cause of a virus.













There are different kind of virus:


*File virus
>>>a kind of virus that infect the .exe and .com files.
*Worm virus
>>>a kind of virus that controls anything in your computer randomly without permission.


*Boot virus

>>>a kind of virus that block certain kind of program.

*Time virus

>>>a kind of virus that when it wakes up, it'll change the time randomly without peromission.


*ANSI virus

>>>a kind of virus that gives a command to a letter/number that was pressed.


*Trojan virus
>>>the most powerful virus. It is not actually virus, but it duplicates itself until you run out of memory stored in your computer.


But there are no kinds of spyware.

Virus is the most dangerous. Spyware only distract you with the use of pop-ups while virus is permanently until it was remove.


So the kind of virus to be avoid is the Trojan/Backdoor Trojan. Don't download in a "not thrusted" website without Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware.

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