You heard about it, you read about it, you listen your friends' discussion regarding malware, you wonder why almost everybody keep on talking about that thing.
What is a malware exactly? This article will help you to find out what is malware and to know its infection strategy.
Malware originally known as malicious software.
It's name derived from the word 'mal' from the word malicious combined with word 'ware' derived from the word software.
Computer virus is also a malware in general because computer viruses were actually a program created (also called as coded) to do certain job after successfully being installed.
Any computer program is generally a piece of software.
How do malware infects your computer and how they got spread so fast? Most important thing to keep in mind is, all kind of malicious code software has one thing in common.
They spread fast via internet connection, via internal network available in office, house or via free wireless internet coverage.
The most common strategy malware uses to spread itself is via USB flash drive, USB pen drive and via any USB plug and play storage device.
How to know you computer has been infected? Best tactic to know if your computer has been attacked or not is by installing latest antivirus software.
You need to update the internal database regularly to enable it to detect any malicious code before any harmful attack arise.
If you don't update your antivirus regularly, it will never recognize any kind of new malware that comes into you computer system via network, the internet or via USB handy storage device.