In recent years, computer viruses have already been considered to be the most notorious. Computer virus is a kind of program, it transmits in the internet during the processing procedure, then attach to different program and data. Worm is another form of virus, it is a really rare virus with a rather tiny body but strong ability to transmit, this destructive program first copy the information by itself and then fill up the whole computer system, finally block it. Makes the system work slower or even stop working.
Learn More about Worm Virus:
Worms is a kind of computer virus that you can normally see it. Taking advantages of the internet to copy and spread is its transmission principal; internet and email are the most two common ways through which it transmits. Under the DOS circumstance, when the virus is activated, a tiny thing that looks similar to a worm shown on the screen and swallows the icons on the screen and change the shape of them that is the reason why worms got its original definition.
In 1988, it spread uncontrollability in western American and lead to thousands and millions computers crashed. Because this virus can make a big mess, for example, some certain kind of drive-killer viruses can ruin all the information in the system. Kindly suggest you to be cautious when receive some new program or data. And now a detective program which is called virus detective program is offered to use, when some certain kind of virus come into the system, it will be detected and send warnings to the computer users. Unluckily, the viruses are created and you just can’t stop this tendency, what’s more, not all of the viruses can be detected.
The most important is, the threat of worms is seen here and there, and it makes small chaos every day but serious attack after a couple of days. It makes a big harm to your computer by the side effects created by virus transmission, with a really quick speed and end in a fatal attack, the whole system would crash in a really short time. Many of us still can remember that yahoo website was attacked and finally crashed in 2001.
The influence of the worms may lead to a low speed of internet. Therefore, we must upgrade the using antivirus software in time, so it is with your computer, upgrade and install system repair program in time. At the same time, you should uninstall the unnecessary servers and shut down the unnecessary starting items in order to improve the safety and reliability of the system. Taking one of types of worm “web virus downloader” as a case, after being activated, this virus will not only delete ｓｖｃｈｏｓｔ．ｅｘｅ system file automatically, but also create virus files of the same name. This virus registers itself as a system to normal process; in that case, it will be hard for the computer users to figure out which virus it belongs to. Besides, this virus still tries to close many kinds of anti viruses
Tips for the Computer Users:
Taking all of these threats into consideration, the expert put forward some tips for the computer users: first, form a good habit of not clicking unnoted webpage and susceptive emails. Second, open windows and upgrade automatically, install the latest system security patches in time to avoid your computer being attacked by virus when as there are system bugs. Third, open account-proof safe of the antivirus, which will automatically prevent Trojan and other kinds of malicious virus from attacking the computer, then effectively protect your account from being stole.