Malware Protection

What You Need To Know

Malware is a collective term for malicious software which there are different types of, these are viruses, trojan’s and spyware. Malware is software which has been written to perform unauthorised (functions) within a computer or network.

The common ways that computers and networks can be infected with malware is from browsing compromised website’s, opening attachments on suspicious E-Mail’s or from running an unknown file from a removable storage device (e.g. USB stick).

A way to prevent these from happening is to either get dedicated software which will search for, detect and disable malware. These can be standalone programs or built into antivirus software.

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