Viruses, spywares and malwares are the major enemy of computers. They attack PCs through various ways and sometimes, despite the installation of anti-virus software, they can still go undetected and eventually affect the hardware.
In the past, viruses can be contracted through the sharing of data via floppy diskettes. Today, however, they can attack a computer via email, downloading of software over the internet or through P2P sharing.
A research by Google has suggested that one in every website is infected with malware. Statistics released by AVG in 2009 also showed that viruses are fast moving and can infect as many as 100,000 to 300,000 new websites each day. [Read more…]