What is the Difference Between Malware and a Virus?

Protect Your PC form Malware

What is the basic difference between malware and a virus? While discussing general infection of computer, malware and viros come interchangeably. For removing malware and virus from computer right identification of application is very important. Malwares come to the computer in various form and do many kinds of problem i.e. damage computer, computer applications and the general use of computer.

What do malware do?

Malware is the short form of Malicious software. Malwares are designed of unauthorized access to the computer and do various forms of damage of computer.

Now a days there are various forms of malwares i.e. spyware, key loggers, malicious cookies, root kits, Adware, bandwidth hogging, malware, web hijackers, etc.

Normally a virus attacks computer and try to corrupt, damage or delete valuable data from computer. It also try to replicate and deliver copies to other computers, often try to send copies of itself through email program and try to sent infected email to all listed email address.

Trojan programs are also considered as virus, normally masquerade their harmful effect inside innocuous files like a video, mp3, a photo, even text files. Trojan may come via email and they remain hidden inside the email. While people try to open the file Trojan spread out the computer.

You should know that almost all infections have ability to mask themselves as well as their activities so as to not be picked up by removal software, either commercial or free. They will even go so far to protect themselves by leaving registry keys to regenerate executable files, if the executable file becomes deleted.

They can also generate new file in the temporary directories, also other folders and directories in the computer. Specially after restart computer they recreate and try to spread all over the computer. In this instance, removal must be done manually, through powering a computer and loading safe mode of windows, and individual deletion of the correct files and registry keys.

There have so many free and commercial internet security and anti-virus applications. All of them are not effective at removing virus and malware. Fortunately there have some specialize applications for removing malware. You should do update your anti-virus regularly for a malware free computer.