Virus is a harmful program which when gets executed on a computer may manipulate the information stored in the computer or replicate the files stored in the computer. All computer viruses are not lethal. The lethal nature of the computer virus depends on the programming of it. Some computer viruses like I-ray, just replicate the winfile.exe and other folder files. They create the copy of the folder inside the same folder, thus increase the hard disk covered space. But if nothing done at a proper time it can create severe problems even crash the system.
These days Spyware and Adware is becoming more nuisance for the computer than the usual viruses. Now you must be thinking how Spyware and Adware is different from normal virus. So let me explain you the difference between all of them (according to me based on my 10 years experience.).
Spyware and Adware are two forms of viruses which spread through internet. These are comparatively less lethal than other viruses, but still it creates a lot of havoc as it prevent the proper functioning of internet on any computer and as we all know today that internet is a vital component in our life.
It creates unusual internet traffic in your computer, which in turns slow downs the internet speed of your computer and also increases the consumption of bandwidth on it. Thus you have to pay hefty bandwidth charges to your ISP.
Adware creates problem by pop up windows and changing internet explorer homepage to some other websites (like some kind of search portal). It creates lot of problem while surfing the internet. Now, you must be very clear about the problems created by these kind of viruses. If your computer get infected with it then you must try to remove it with any good anti- spyware program, some of them can be freely downloaded from the internet. Also increase the security settings of the internet explorer and also disable java on the browser, it will help in checking the problem to an extent. Take Care,
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