How Do You Get Malware?
Malware comes via the internet. Web servers can get hijacked, too. If you use your internet browser, typically Microsoft Internet Explorer, and visit a site on a compromised web server, you are vulnerable to certain types of malware. You know how much spam is affecting your email experience. Spam, and downright malicious html (email looks like a web page) can contain attachments or code that will attempt to go through a security hole to install its program/s. Following is an example of an attractive download just begging to be installed on your computer. Don't be fooled. The words GAIN Publishing are the giveaway that tells you it will install spyware and adware.
Hijacked Browser:
Instead of going to your normal start page, Internet Explorer goes somewhere else; frequently these are pornography or gambling sites. Often, your system - and you - are overwhelmed by literally dozens of Internet Explorer windows throwing themselves at you. The Computer Support Group is aware of currently unpatched vulnerabilities from websites you may visit which can put secret programs to run on your computer. Like you, we count on typically just a few well known websites and do not go off the straight and narrow to any little temptation. We are not the cat, who knows not what overcoming temptation is. Often, your system becomes a spamming zombie or worse, hijacked to the point where your computer is actually acting as a webserver, providing a website for pornography.
