10 Common Computer Viruses

If you are a frequent user of Internet, there is a big chance that your computer will be infected with a virus. These viruses can infect your computer every time you download applications, programs, videos and music from the Internet. The best way to protect your computer is through installing a good anti-virus. However, you must have to get some ideas of the most widespread viruses on computers.

1.    Encrypted Viruses – Considered as the most difficult to detect and to stop. It can be downloaded accidentally without your knowledge and can infect your computer instantly. It uses unusual form of encryption and decrypts itself for worse cases.
2.    Secret Viruses – This kind of virus can change the files on your computer and it can even replace them. There are advanced anti-virus that can help stop virus before it can damage your computer.
3.    Time Delay Viruses – This kind of virus does not immediately cause harm on your computer. Instead, it works by slowly infecting your files one at a time. You may not have noticed the virus instantly the minute you have downloaded them since they wait before they infect. It is best that you should run an anti-virus weekly to prevent virus from penetrating into your computer.
4.    The Anti-Virus Virus – You should be aware that there are viruses that infect the anti-virus installed on your computer. The virus works by disabling the anti-virus so that viruses can still be downloaded on your computer.
5.    The Multi-Headed Virus – Considered as the most despicable form of bug in the Internet. The virus can attach into your .exe files and also affect the booting system that makes you download them every time you start up your computer.
6.    The Misdirection Virus – This virus can be scary for your computer because it has a built in subprogram that gives false readings to your anti-virus software.
7.    A Cloning Virus – This virus duplicates all your .exe files. Once you click the file, you are not actually clicking the file but clicking the file that has been infected.
8.    The Author Virus – The virus search for .exe file and deletes it. It will then alter the code to change the program.
9.    The Bad Penny Virus – A bug that involuntarily passes itself to the Internet or those who are working online.
10.    Rewriting Virus – A kind of virus that automatically rewrites all your files on your computer. It also fills up all the hard disk drives with lots of invisible and unnecessary files.