Malware is an abbreviation for Malicious Software. A great upsurge of malware began in late 2005 when producing malware change from a computer geek hobby to an activity of organized crime.
Some malware are designed to steal confidential information; some to cause damage by causing computer systems to fail; other are programmed to deny access to computer resources.
Malware has the ability to corrupt files, alter or delete data, distribute confidential data, disable hardware and cause to a hard drive to crash.
There are three characteristics associated with malware types:
*Self-replicating
*The population growth of malware describes the overall change in the number of malware instances due to self-replication. Malware that doesn’t self-replicate will always have a zero population growth, but malware with a zero population growth may self-replicate.
*Parasitic malware requires some their executable code in order to exist.
There are three types of malware that people who connect to the internet need to be concerned about:
*Infectious
*Concealer
*Profit malware
Malware can spread over all medium of modern digital communication including the internet, via e-mails, and instant messaging networks. Thus all forms of digital communication are at risk of being exploited by malware to infect users.
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