A guide to Understand Malware and to remove them

 The one most people get is the one that takes over your browser. (Internet Explorer or any others) It basically takes your search engine and homepage and puts it somewhere else. How annoying is it when you try to use your browser and it doesn't work right, or in some cases at all.

Malware is a virus type of software that can enter your system and cause it to malfunction a bit or totally destroy it. It can erase all of your information in a snap and it will be impossible to recover it. Everything on your computer will be gone, pictures, and resumes, taxes, anything and everything. Worst of all it can lead to identity theft because whoever sent it will have access to all your pertinent and personal information.

Now the question is how to do it? The answer is online malware removal tools. These programs explore and check every file in your system against their database of known Malware applications. During scanning, if it detects any program, it makes a list of possible problems, and once the scanning is over, you have to decide what to do with the files detected. Out of the many options (such as delete the file, quarantine it, etc.) if the file listed is not a part of a program that you need, the most obvious option is to delete the file.

With an online Malware removal tool. These tools are programs that run a search of each file in your machine, checking it against a Malware applications database. The tool will list any Malware it might find, leaving you to decide how to deal with it. The most obvious option is to delete the files, which is what you should do unless the file listed is part of a program you might need.

You can also check if your system is infected by spyware yourself. By going to the task manager, you can check on how many programs are running currently in your computer. And you can get to know if there are unknown programs running in your computer. If there are, then beware that they can cause a total arrest of your computer system. But there is a way out in the form of spyware removal programs. 

There are a lot of ways that a computer can get spyware and its cousin Adware. The most popular ways right now are still by installing programs that have the spyware embedded directly into it and is launched as soon as you install the program. Other ways to get spyware are from visiting webpages that drop Active X controls on your computer or run javascripts and even sometimes from objects placed within emails.