Malware… Malware everywhere!

--Originally published at Allow Yourself to fail and learn… and hack

Do you recall about those bad guys I talked about before. Well I am sorry to say, this guys are really creative, and the way we can be attacked varies in formats, sources and damage.

 

Malware are the tools they use to infect our devices and steal information, destroy data or damage our hardware and software. but what does Malware means? Malware is an abbreviation from Malicious Software… and as it sounds this is no bueno. Worst of all, is not as if we could be protecting from a single kind of malware. There are tons of them and they vary on its objectives and the way they are spread among devices.

Some of the most infamous malware we can found are the ones bellow:

Virus

Same as a real biologic virus this malware spread among unprotected computers. Its objective  is to damage the health of our devices. modus operandi: create files, erase files, consume computer resources till it achieves damage. Worst of all, virus can duplicate and travel to other devices. Most common virus  spread is found through USB data sharing, and infected e-mail attachments.

Worm

Same as real not technologic world, worms found their way through difficult places. making its way through memory same way a regular worm would do through soil. This malware does not damages or create files as a virus does, however; they can multiply themselves so much they can end up requiring all of your existing computer memory. Leaving you with a useless and slow computer. Super ability: this guys are almost invisible, so its hard for antivirus to detect them..

Trojan horses

If you know the story or have seen the movie Troy,  pretty much it is what you might be thinking. Trojan horses are master of disguise, they masquerade as regular programas, such as anything you could

in your computer. But on the inside its only pure evilness code. Since they disguise as normal programs they are able to acquire enough permissions to damage your devices. Luckily this guys don’t replicate and the only way they can achieve damage is through permission.

spyware

last but not least we have spyware. as the name suggest this malware is about spying our computer. this malware can capture confidential and delicate information such as web browsing, passwords, messages, and other delicate information that we are so used to irresponsible type on our devices. Of course this data will be latter been transmitted to others over internet.  Since this malware doesn’t affect s performance, nor files, sometimes is hard to detect them.

besides these examples, there are tons of other malware that can be found. hopefully there are ways we can protect ourselves. First of all by knowledge so we can behave a more responsibly use while browsing through internet. Also very important by using antivirus software. just make sure you are using official distributions, otherwise its pretty likely that sooner or later you would be dealing with an instant karma supply of malware.