7 Types Of Malware That You Need To Know

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Malware is common to computer users, and it's a very rampant word of social media and the internet and others seeking help to rescue computers, networks, data, documents, photos, and even videos. These viruses will make your computer data and files not accessible to you. And make your work stagnant and your privacy became vulnerable to others.

Malware viruses is a short name for malicious software with a different strategy and coding tactics. It's malicious software variants of viruses, and spyware and the most rampant this day is ransomware. Develop by fraud expert attackers which they made as authors who develop this genius type of viruses. They design this to cause extensive more damage to your data, network connections, access unauthorized login to the system, or even tricks for hacking or cracking a system or your login passwords.

HOW MALWARE SPREADING TO YOUR COMPUTER?

Malware infections to your computer make a different way by making deceptions to computer users, like putting the virus code to downloadable files from internet sites. This will make payloads of malware viruses to enter your computer storage and will make damage to your computer system and make your data and files change its structures. The common ransomware is .kasp and .geno, once your computer penetrated your files and data this will become encrypted. And you can gain access again to your data and files by paying ransom demand money to the fraud authors.

Below are the seven types of malware viruses that may infect your computer and networks.

7 TYPE OF MALWARE VIRUSES THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER AND NETWORKS

1. RANSOMWARE- This is a type of malicious software that may infect your computer systems, files, and data by encrypting them and demanding ransom money to make your data became accessible again. This is a type of virus that encrypts data completely and lockouts your computer networks or your computer completely. It's possible to spread by hackers to make demand money to make your data back again or decrypted. NOTE: There are some free decrypting tools for this type of malware, but not all types of variants can be solved, like the .kasp and .geno. This type of variant is hard to fix due to the online keys that keep on the remote servers by fraud authors.
2. VIRUS- This is a code of hidden software that will harm your computer by inserting itself into your computer systems, programs, and files.
3. SPYWARE- This is a specialized code designed to make spying on the user's devices by hiding itself into a program or site link to steal credit card numbers, passwords, your internet habits online, and even surfing to your favorites sites.
4. TROJANS- This virus packed in files or data you downloaded, it will make your computer harmless or pretend to be harmless. It can slow down your computer by duplicating your system files and your data through its hidden destructive functions. And putting your online safety at in dangerous level.
5. BOTNET- It's a group of infected computers that works altogether, it's internet-connected devices, each one of its devices running one or more bots that control by attackers to perform a large malicious attack or to distribute a denial of service attack, stealing data, spamming or sent spam email, or allowing attackers to enter your device password. And also it can steal your device connections.
6. WORMS- It's a computer malware programs that can reproduce itself to infect other computers in your networks. It can harm your network's bandwidth and relying on failures of network security on a target computer to access it.
7. ADWARE- It's an advertising support software and generates revenue by generating online advertisements in front of your user interface program automatically. Underestimate your computer security by serving intrusive and highly harmful ads that may lead to other viruses that cause your computer down.  

All mentions above are the most destructive malware viruses invented. It needs your attention and prevention to avoid being caught. You need computer protections like installing anti-virus and anti-malware software. And prevent yourself from accessing prohibited sites, emails like spam send in your email account. Avoid using other drives that you may not know and run virus scanning constantly and make your computer is updated and avoid unlicensed software to keep your programs being updated like the anti-malware and anti-virus, including the operating systems.

MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR FILES AND DATA

Your files and data are precious, not only to make the safety of this computer stuff but also to make a duplicate or backup to make your data and files available again in case if you're computer being attacked. And fixing is not possible and decryption is impossible. There are many ways to back up your computer data and files. You can use Google Drive and other cloud storage or have a backup to other removable drives.  

If you have comments and other suggestions you can write them down in the comment section of this post below here. Keep safe always...

What Is .KASP And How To Remove This Ransomware Variant

The. KASP is a new type of variant of Ransomware virus that is defined as malicious ware that will attack your data like the images, photos, videos, and files/documents. This type of ransomware virus is the family of ransomware-type DJVU infections. It will add it to the extension of your files, example your photo filename is dogjump.jpeg, it will become dogjump.jpeg.kasp once your drive files have been infected. The infected files can be easily tracked.KASP file extension and your file can't be open. 

THE WORSE THAT EVER EXPERIENCES  IN ALL TYPE OF VIRUSES

Other viruses as your experience can be easily removed by antivirus software installed on your computer. But this new ransomware variant is a type of malicious ware that will kidnap the victim's files/data by encrypting it very intelligently. And you will never recover it until you pay ransom to the criminal authors.

BELOW ARE SOME DETAILS OF KAPS VIRUS:

 RANSOMWARE FAMILY

 DJVU/STOP ransomware

What's Inside of All-In-One Computer

This new type of Desktop PC design is integrated with all the components of a traditional PC. It's vertically set in your table. And there are no other devices to compose the one unit PC, except with the keyboard and mouse. Meaning the system unit, speaker, camera, and LCD monitor screen is pack in one box to enable the different application work with the operating system.

Different ports to interface new peripherals like USB ports, LAN port, audio jack, DB 15 or VGA port, and rs-232 are available for connections, including the WIFI connections for your internet needs.

The purpose of this post is to let you understand the internal parts of this type of PC and to let you know the functions on it.

Below are the internal parts and the use and functions:

1. MOTHERBOARD or MOBO- It is the mainboard of this type of computer, where major connections of processor chip, RAM, HDD, I/O ports, and WIFI Adapter cards interfacing on this printed circuit boards. The I/O ports are PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse, USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports for any USB devices like keyboard and mouse, RS-232 port for any devices that uses serial port connections, LAN port for internet connections using WIRED cable or UTP cable, audio jack for your headset of MIDI devices.
2. LEFT and RIGHT SPEAKERS- It is a small box use to output the voice audio, like YouTube and movies.
3. WIFI ADAPTER CARD- It's a small circuit board use to receive the incoming signals from WIFI providers or internet providers.
4. REAR PANEL USB INTERFACE BOARD- It's a USB port at the back of this type of PC where you can use to connect a USB flash drive or other USB devices. 
5. RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY or RAM- This is a small printed circuit board, commonly DDR3 or DRR4 compatible 4GB capacity. 
6. SATA SOLID STATE DRIVE- This is the main storage of this type of computer, they use the SATA interface and the solid-state drive or SSD. 
7. MICROPROCESSOR CHIP- This part handles the big processing of calculation of data. It uses the Intel processor which is compatible with the motherboard and the RAM.
8. FRONT CAMERA- It's a built-in front camera installed at the center of the LCD monitor screen case. That has also high resolution of up to 1080 pixels.
9. THERMAL HEATSINK- This part is a combination of a cooling fan and the metal alloy that absorb the temperature from the processor chip. So that the processor doesn't take the over-temperature that cause to slow down the processing.
10. LCD POWER INTERFACE BOARD- This is the circuit board that processes the voltage output to power up the LCD monitor.
11. M2 SSD SLOT- This is used to interface the M2 type Solid State Drive or M2 SSD. Its another type of storage that uses a Nand Microchips to stored data. 

All in one PC or computer is better than a traditional PC. It's easy to set up in your table because all connections in order to run the application are built-in in one package. No need to connect data cable from the monitor screen to a CPU, speaker, and camera. It's a specific design for your all computing needs. And this is slim and compact, easy to handle and arrange in your table on in other locations of your office or home. 

For the operating system, it's compatible with Windows and Linux. And have better functionality in processing applications and compatibility. And it has a high speed when in use on the internet.