{"id":2049,"date":"2014-02-22T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T17:27:13","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-malware-viruses-and-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/whats-the-difference-between-malware-viruses-and-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Difference between Malware, Viruses and Spyware?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The word <\/span>malware<\/b> is a combination of two words \u201cmalicious\u201d and \u201csoftware\u201d. It is a generic term used to describe any hostile and intrusive software\/programs including adware, <\/span>spyware<\/b>, worms, Trojans, and <\/span>viruses<\/b> normally targeted by software like Kaspersky, McAfee, and AVG. While all these infections harm our computers, they are not the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Malware, virus and sypware – which is which<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Malware<\/b> is becoming a more common term because of the wide variety of different threats to computers and the potential of an infection not being a virus<\/b> but one of the other mentioned infections. If you\u2019re not fully protected, the wrong bit of malware can compromise your machine or even lead to your personal information getting stolen by identity thieves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main purpose of this article is to discuss but a few differences and ways this harmful programs get into your computer and their general characteristics:<\/p>\n

What Is A Virus\/Malware<\/b><\/h2>\n

Computer virus<\/b> the term that used to be generic in the earlier days of computers and the Internet. Any harmful software used to be branded as a virus<\/b>; however, as more and more users became aware and exposed to the Internet, we started using the term \u201cmalware<\/b><\/a>\u201d. We use the word \u201cvirus<\/b>\u201d to describe a program that self-replicates after hooking itself onto other programs running in Windows. For example, a virus<\/b> will attach itself to a program such as an office suite program like Word. Each time the Word program runs, the virus<\/b> runs too, and it has the chance to reproduce and even attach itself to other programs. Further, we have email viruses<\/b>:<\/p>\n

An e-mail virus<\/b> is transmitted as an attachment to e-mail message, and usually replicates itself by automatically mailing itself to dozens of people in the victim’s e-mail contacts’ book. Some e-mail viruses<\/b> will not even require to be opened; In the event you just preview the infected email message, the virus<\/b> becomes activated!<\/p>\n

What Is Spyware<\/b><\/h2>\n

This is any software that covertly gathers user information through the user\u2019s Internet connection without his or her knowledge, usually for advertising purposes. Spyware<\/b> applications are typically bundled as a hidden component of freeware or shareware programs that can be downloaded from the Internet. However, it should be noted that the majority of shareware and freeware applications do not come with spyware<\/b>. Once installed, the spyware<\/b> monitors user activity on the Internet and transmits that information in the background to someone else. Spyware<\/b> can also gather information about E-mail addresses and even passwords and credit card numbers.<\/p>\n

Mirekusoft Install Monitor<\/a> puts you back in control of your system. It automatically monitors what gets placed on your system and allows you to uninstall it completely.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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The word malware is a combination of two words \u201cmalicious\u201d and \u201csoftware\u201d. It is a generic term used to describe any hostile and intrusive software\/programs including adware, spyware, worms, Trojans, and viruses normally targeted by software like Kaspersky, McAfee, and AVG. While all these infections harm our computers, they are not the same. Malware is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,95,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}