Fclark10's List: Viruses, Threats, and Malware

• CNET's Forum on viruses and spyware is the best source for finding the latest news, help, and troubleshooting advice from a community of experts.
• Discussions cover how to detect, fix, and remove viruses, spyware, adware, malware, and other vulnerabilities on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
• • A forum that different people found trouble and help with

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• Read the following articles to educate yourself on the latest scams and internet-based threats going around.
• The articles below will show you some of the tools that are used by hackers and educate you on what you can do to protect your systems from them.
• How to Break Into Your Own Computer 

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• Malware, short for malicious software
• is any software used to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems
• executable code, scripts, active content, and other software
• badware is sometimes used, and applied to both true (malicious) malware and unintentionally harmful software.^[4]
• Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, scareware, and other malicious programs
• computer contaminant, as in the legal codes of several U.S. states
• worms or trojans
• Malware is often disguised as, or embedded in, non-malicious files
• useful or attractive, but may have, for example, additional hidden tracking functionality that gathers marketing statistics

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