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2 Safeguarding your Computer
Your Aim
to learn about:
Computer Malware Harms Caused by Computer Malware
How Does a Computer Get Infected? Symptoms of an Infected Computer
How to Protect Your Computer? Antivirus
Firewall
A computer also falls sick as harmful files and applications
damage it. There are preventive measures to secure our
computer too. Let us read about them in this chapter.
We must adapt preventive measures to protect our computer
systems and data from any kind of danger or risk. One of the
common risks is malware attack.
COMPUTER MALWARE
Malware, or malicious software, is a software made to cause harm to your system. A malware
gets installed on a computer without approval from the computer's owner. There are different
types of malware, each having unique characteristics. Let’s find out.
Worm
Virus
Ransomware MALWARE Trojan
Horse
Spyware Adware
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