Hacking & Viruses: How to Protect Against Hacking

Thousands of websites are hacked every day and webmasters are crying for help. There isn’t much we can do; most computers are infected with viruses, from Trojan Horses to any other unwanted virus. What viruses are used for and why people keep spreading them? Most virus creators/owners do it to earn money, others do it for fun.

One of the most common viruses will pop up websites that you didn’t want to visit, this method became a very common and profitable way for advertises to make money. How do they get to you? Most of the time it is done in a legitimate way, when downloading a software to your computer most of us don’t read the terms and conditions section. If you take a moment to read, it will be hard believe what you agree to when installing the software. The only thing the software owners are not allowed to do is to blow up your computer, the rest is 100% legal. This includes pop ups which is a well known and profitable way to bring traffic and make money on the internet, installing different programs on your computer, checking what kind of of things you use your computer for, by that learning what will convert you best as their user and what will make you spend money.

This industry is growing every day when more and more software programs are created specially for this propose. The main objective is to sell you products. The most common programs that will be used for this propose and might put your computer and personal information in stake are screensavers, browsers toolbars and other similar stuff.

A worst kind of viruses will install the program without the user consent by visiting a website. Most of the time the site that installs the virus on your computer is unaware about the virus installed on his website. In this case users should let the webmaster know so he can make a clean up to make sure no more users are infected.

Most viruses are impossible to remove once your computer is infected; the only way is reinstall your operating system. This will ensure safe surf on the internet, until the next time you will get infected by others greediness for easy money.