Protecting Our Computer from Malicious Influences

When we are connecting our computer to the internet, we are actually putting our computer system within the dangerous exposure of various malicious influences which are roaming on the internet. Unless we have protected our computer system with reliable antivirus program, spyware remover and strong firewall, our computer is highly prone to being damaged by serious attacks launched by those malicious influences. Protecting our computer with those protective instruments is thus an obligatory task that we should regard seriously.

Malicious actions that may attack our system have a large variety of types. Some of them attack our system to perform damaging activities from within the system. Such malicious action is performed by malwares called viruses and trojans. As the name implies, virus can live and do malicious action once it has been injected to the host system. Before it infects the system, it is completely harmless. That’s the reason why virus is often very difficult to be detected. Its presence can be perceived only after the system has shown certain weirdness. Trojan’s name adopts the name of artificial large horse in the Greek mythology. Just like the Trojan horse, this malware enters the system as harmless object and when it has been inside, it starts to perform damaging actions.

Another threat that needs to be avoided is spyware. When our computer has been infected by a spyware, this malicious object will start to monitor everything that we do on the internet secretly. During our computer operation, we will mostly need to submit our private information, including our password, credit account and social security number, when we want to employ online service. A spyware collects our submitted data and send them silently over the internet to its maker. Antispyware software can detect the presence of spyware within our computer and do the appropriate action to remove it. After the removal, it is recommended that we repair our registry system which has been damaged by both virus and spyware using registry cleaner such as Regcure.