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SAFEGUARDING YOUR COMPUTER
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                          Your Aim


                          to learn about:
                             l   Computer Malware                           l    Harms Caused by Computer Malware
                              l   How Does a Computer Get infected?               l    Symptoms of an Infected Computer
                               l   How to Protect Your Computer?                      l   Antivirus
                                l   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 designed  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



                                                               MALWARE          Trojan
                                                  Ransomware                    Horse




                                                         Spyware            Adware






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