Viruses and Worms
Hackers have become very good at writing computer viruses and worms and have caused literally billions of dollars in damage. You've probably heard about the more damaging ones on the news. And there's a good chance that you've been infected with a virus or worm yourself, or you know someone who has. You may not even know you've been infected in most cases if you don't have the right anti-virus protection.
Viruses in the past have been more of an expensive nuisance than anything, infecting millions of computers with no real purpose. Viruses of the past caused performance problems on computers, possibly even shutting them down, forcing victims to have a professional remove the virus or reformat the computer. But the resulting damages has been staggering.
FACTS:
. There are over 500 new viruses and worms released on the Internet each month.
. At least 82% of current anti-virus users have been recently infected with a virus.
. Less than 33% of those using anti-virus are working from a current anti-virus database.
. New, fast moving viruses and worms can infect hundreds of thousands of computers in a matter of a few hours.
. It can take many hours, even days, for security firms to create an anti-virus signature to defend against new viruses. Everyone is very susceptible to infection during that time.
. You can be infected through emails, instant messenger, downloads and by simply surfing the web.
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Comments (7)
Prajnith Kumar3
Biggest Threat Faced while Checking You Bank Account on you pc is keyloggers,They Tend to note down your keystrokes and send it to the culprit (hacker),so while typing password for you bank accounts,ebay,email id or other confidential stuffs use virtual keyboard,in run menu(Winkey +R) or click on run found on start menu,type osk
this will launch on screen keyboard.you can click on the letters found in that keyboard and login ,this is one way of preventing keyloggers for capturing your keystro
Prajnith Kumar3
As Far as I have noticed most of the virus & other malwares are designed to attack C drive, So Why Not Install Windows OS In other drive, I 've Be using this method for a long time, & has turned out be usefull many time, I had virus in my C Drive but it could't spread as there aint Any Windows OS in C Drive, This Idea is created By Me, & Tested By Me.
and If You have Your Drives Formated as NTFS you can Implement access controle feature .
You can just set permission to who can access those drive
Jennifer Underwood11
Promoter
Jeunelle! Thank you for sharing your story on here! I am excited for the 15th to come and you will be so very pleased with your choice! Then you will be like me, telling the world about how GREAT Invisus is! Hope you are doing well!
Shrihari Sawant7
Consultant
Since we are working on the net we have to be very careful in protecting our PC from day to day virus that emerged. Some virus are so different that we does not realized it as virus and even antivirus program are not in a position to do anything.
Jennifer Underwood11
Promoter
You are so very right! I have posted a video on a blog..if you don't know...you will after watching this video!
http://www.apsense.com/article/109810.html
Jeff Greene8
Online Marketing Specialist/Consultant
I believe that security is the most important of topics, and yet no one seems to want to respond to this puppy!
I hope that people don't think that their "Right out of the box, onboard protection!" will ever be enough... This approach can cause severe damage to everyone's computer, not just the lax owners of one or two machines- We are CONNECTED, People!
And just like a real world virus can sicken millions if not checked and caught in time, a computer virus can basically do the same th