Worm, Viruses and Spyware

Viruses are programs or codes that is loaded in theinformation for commercial purposes and its major
computer with the aim of creating a disruptive situationtasks include; delivery of unwanted advertisements,
in the operations of the system. It has the tendenciestheft of personal information, supervising
to replicate itself. Therefore virus has a veryWeb-browsing activity for marketing purposes and
destructive tendencies.transmission of HTTP requests to advertising sites.
Worms are also computer viruses that areAdware is also a type of spyware that follow the
self-propagating. We can say that a worm is ausers browsing patterns and then transfer them to
computer virus, and they have tendency to regenerateadvertising companies, just for marketing and it
for in order to wreck more havoc on the affectednoticable when a sudden pop adverts interupts during
system. It can use all of a computer's resources andsysten usage. Computer hacking is a common
shut it down.problem that occurs everyday, and it is due to the
Spyware is a program that can follow your actionsactivities of spywares or viruses that steals all private
and your internet use. It can access your passwords,information without permission and also it is very costly
your key words and what ever you typed on yourto manage.
computer, or it is a program which can gatherTherefore, it is necessary to protect your computer
information about your internet usage, just forfrom attacks of viruses by installing anti-spyware or
advertising purposes.anti-viruses programs. These programs are easily
It usually gathers information from the user andavailable on internet and their soft wares are also
transfers it to some other user in the background. Itaccessible very where.
can take information from e-mail addresses. It gathers