Do you really worried about your
computer performance, security problem and your privacy? Do you have any
problem to access your data or data corruption or leakage? Most of the people
face such problems.
Do you know how this happening? Who is
doing this? And how to secure your Pc?
Are you in one of infected person? If yes then
you must know, How this all happen? How to protect your Pc?
This article will be very helpful in this
regard. All of these happening due to a small program which termed as Virus.
What is Computer Virus?
Virus is small piece of code that
reproduces itself infinitely, damage your Pc, lose your personal and important
data and spread from one computer to another computer.
Virus is common word in our daily
life. Everyone is infected by virus. If we take overview of history of viruses
then we come to know that viruses are generated in mid of 1980s, but in those days,
had nothing specific damage routine. Hence, new and more powerful viruses came
into being with the passage of time.
There are many kind of computer
viruses like Trojan, Worms, Time bomb and Root kit etc.
Most of
us are being recipient of computer viruses but still they did not know. There
are researchers who spend a lot of time looking into different types of
computer viruses and related security threats in order to determine how they’re
programmed, how they do damage, how they spread and how we protect our
Pc from virus.
In March
1988, the first anti-virus was designed to detect and remove the virus.
What is Antivirus software?
Antivirus
is a computer program, high-end technologies that work in perfect synergy,
having one common goal: to protect your system and valuable data against
computer viruses.
Now-a-days
there is a number of companies which programmed the antivirus software and you
can access these software from anywhereLike
Avast, NOD, Security Essentials, and Doctor Etc.
How Anti-Virus program Works?
Anti-virus
scan your computer memory and
files in the forms of pattern,
This
may show infection. These pattern based on definition or signature etc, of
known viruses.
Programmers release new and update virus so it is
important to update your viruses definition after certain days.
There are two types of scanning.1. Automatic scanning
In this type of scanning you can set
different files which are automatically scan after a specific time period.
2. Manual Scanning
This type of scanning is more useful for
user in such a way that user manually handle their specific files, folders
and drive etc.
There is number of companies
which release their own antivirus software, nearly all software do their job
in some ways so it is up to you which one you chose,
Like ISP’s technical department but in real these are viruses .So be careful using net time.
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