Thursday, 5 March 2015

Virus- Briefly Explained

In Today's World, everything in the Internet is Infected due virus . A report says 65 percent of Website you visit are Malicious. These malicious files automatically installs to slow down you computer and start generating errors in your System.
What is Virus?
Virus is a program that is made to cause damage to the computer.

How does it Comes to your System?
When you visit to Internet you may surf to many websites but some websites installs virus to your system. Viruses that are spreaded by opening e-mails of non-trusted source. Downloading Files And Programs.

In these days virus are increasing in millions over these years the protection of your computer is getting weaker as viruses are becoming more stronger. These virus can delete your System Files, Format your Hard-Drives, Disable Mouse and Keyboard as well as infect other Files.

What Are the Sources Of Computer Virus?                      
The following are the sources of Computer Virus:
1. USB Media Transfer from One Computer to Another.
2. Through Unprotected Internet Websites.
3. Through Opening Fraud (and Advertisements) Emails.
4. Opening Various types of Advertisements in the Websites.
5. Surfing over Internet without any Protection.

What Are the Symptoms Of Viruses?
1. Slowing down of Computer due to Virus using Large amount RAM.
2. Slow Startup of Computer.
3. Some Softwares not Working.
4. Drives may Formatted or filled with files.
5. Software crashes.
6. Corrupt Files
Etc......

What Can You Do?
1. Download a Trusted Anti-Virus to delete Viruses (Your Corrupt files can also be deleted).
2. Download a Trusted Fragmenting Software to fragment drives.
3. Clean Junk Files (by pressing Start+R and type %temp% and delete all files present their because they cover the space of your hardisk)
4. Do not download files from non-trusted sources.

Can I Check the Efficiency of My Antivirus?
Yes, you can check the efficiency of the antivirus you have
This is an Eicar Standard Antivirus Test. Follow these Steps to Test Your Antivirus:
1. Open Notepad.

2. Copy the Text given Below- 
X50!P%@AP[4/PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*          .

3. Save it as any name with extension of .com .

Thanks For Reading this Blog, this is all basic information you need to know about Viruses.
                                                                     
                                           -By: VFX Yaman Kurre


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