A threat refers to anything that has the potential to cause serious harm to the computer system. A threat may or may not happen to your computer but it can potentially cause serious damage to the system. It can lead to attack on the computer systems, network and more. They can put individual computer system and business computers at risk so the vulnerabilities have to fix so that attackers cannot infiltrate the system and cause damage. These threats include viruses, Trojans, back doors to outright attacks from hackers. This type of software have malicious tendencies and can steal your username, take control of your PC, password, slow down your PC and many more.
There are few types of threats that can easily infect the PC here is a list for 7 types of malicious software and brief description of each of them:
1. Spyware
The spyware are the software that will spy on everything you do, what websites you are visiting, browsing habits, installation of additional software and changes made on the homepage of the browser. You can remove these types of threats using the anti-spyware software.
2. Adware
Some of the adware are categorized as spywares that displays advertisements and others put the adware into their own categories. Whatever the category is the adware software helps to display the advertisements which can get installed legally inside the PC through unfair means. The bundles of pop-ups that get generated while surfing the internet can be cause of adware.
3. Rootkit
Rootkit is the software that helps to hide inside the PC. Even the antivirus fails to detect these types of viruses.
4. Trojan Horse
Trojan Horse are the software which has been named after the famous Trojan Horse in the Greek Mythology. This malicious software executes itself as folder to trick you.
5. Worm
The computer worm software can infect your PC and may turn your PC as zombie computer. These zombie computer can be controlled by the hackers and usually is used to execute the DDoS attack .
6. Virus
It is one the most famous malicious software. A computer virus is a kind of software program that replicates itself on the system and infects certain types of file and makes them useless forever.
7. Keylogger
Keylogger are the software that records everything that you type including your username, password, credit card information and many more. Every time you use the keyboard it records everything and sends it back to the creator.
There are few types of threats that can easily infect the PC here is a list for 7 types of malicious software and brief description of each of them:
1. Spyware
The spyware are the software that will spy on everything you do, what websites you are visiting, browsing habits, installation of additional software and changes made on the homepage of the browser. You can remove these types of threats using the anti-spyware software.
2. Adware
Some of the adware are categorized as spywares that displays advertisements and others put the adware into their own categories. Whatever the category is the adware software helps to display the advertisements which can get installed legally inside the PC through unfair means. The bundles of pop-ups that get generated while surfing the internet can be cause of adware.
3. Rootkit
Rootkit is the software that helps to hide inside the PC. Even the antivirus fails to detect these types of viruses.
4. Trojan Horse
Trojan Horse are the software which has been named after the famous Trojan Horse in the Greek Mythology. This malicious software executes itself as folder to trick you.
5. Worm
The computer worm software can infect your PC and may turn your PC as zombie computer. These zombie computer can be controlled by the hackers and usually is used to execute the DDoS attack .
6. Virus
It is one the most famous malicious software. A computer virus is a kind of software program that replicates itself on the system and infects certain types of file and makes them useless forever.
7. Keylogger
Keylogger are the software that records everything that you type including your username, password, credit card information and many more. Every time you use the keyboard it records everything and sends it back to the creator.
