Many of Internet users have never noticed about the risks when they are online. And we should be more aware of Internet security to protect ourselves from the threats.
To be simpler to the Internet users who have not much technical knowledge, we have some very popular definitions such as Virus, Spyware, Trojan and Phishing. Hardly to say which one is more dangerous since each of them is harmful in different ways.
Virus is a worm in the computer and has the ability to copy itself and it will occupy the resources of the computer. Spyware exploits the information and data of the computer or the network and sends them back to the place they came from or anywhere else that has been assigned. Trojan horse is formed by virus and spyware, Trojan’s mission is stealing information and it can be spread widely on the Internet. However, Trojan is difficult to write and develop. And the last one, phishing – most of programmers often add phishing to the software for advertisement. It runs......
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