Malware
There are a bunch of lonely people with no social life whatsoever who have nothing better to do than make other people’s lives miserable. They are called malware writers
. They have advanced programming skills and are very well-educated in networking and therefore decide to infiltrate other people’s computers with malicious programs “just for fun”. Well, that’s how it used to be.Our bored losers have realized that they are losers and have no money, no jobs and instead are exploiting the growth of online finance. Now you have malware that comes in all shapes and forms, but you rarely get viruses by themselves any more. In fact, malware is the new robbery. You want to make money fast? Learn how to program in Java. There are several different methods of exploiting people and by far the most frustrating are the flash-drive infections. They spread from computer to computer infecting people by the seconds. There are many different types, but all of them can be removed using this tool. Make sure all your flash drives are plugged in and run the tool.
The trojan horse is named after the trojan horse of Troy, for those of you who have read the iliad or seen the motion picture. The greeks failed to enter the walls of the city of Troy and tricked thetrojans into thinking they gave up and left them a gift. The gift was a giant horse. Little did the trojans know that the horse was stuffed full of Greeks. They therefore brought the horse within the city and in the middle of the night the Greeks burned down the city. The trojan horse is an application which pretends to be a software which a naive user might willingly install, and then damages the system by either providing a way for the hacker to access the victim’s files or take control of the computer.
Phishing is a method of gaining victims’ financial information using an e-mail which looks almost identical to one sent from a bank or paypal which requests that you verify your user information. It is a relatively new form of online fraud but one which has gained sky-high popularity and had been extremely successful.
Spyware is a general term for anything such as a trojan horse or a keylogger (an application that stores everything you type into your keyboard and therefore can determine your passwords) or anything which stores information about the victim.
Adware is a general term for a program which generates pop-ups and advertisements on your computers. You can imagine how much a corporation would pay to have their logo pop-up on victims’ monitors every 5 minutes. Also very frustrating.
So there’s a lot of stuff out there. But how can you stay immune? Well, there is a very wonderful program called HijackThis. Recently purchased by the security company Trend Micro, HijackThis is a diagnostic application which tells you what runs on your PC when you turn it on, what attaches itself to your browser and basically looks in every place an infection would hide. HijackThis reports are not easy to read, and there are experianced experts out there in the online community who are more than happy to help you solve your problems using HijackThis. Do not attempt to fix your computer using HijackThis yourself! You can very easily cause substantial damage to your PC.
The best thing to do is to download HijackThis from here and save it to your desktop. Extract it from the compressed folder and run it. Click on “Do a system scan and save a logfile”. Remember; don’t fix any entries. Copy and paste everything in the text file into a forum online giving details about any problems you are experiencing and wait for a reply.
I recommend any of the following forums:
You can also learn how to remove malware from other people’s computers and become part of the online community against malware. If you want to learn how to remove malware and fight for the good side, Click Here. But bear in mind that training will take a couple of years and is not easy, so only join if you really feel dedicated.
