Malware is a kind of computer software that we call malicious software, it is a kind of malicious software whose only purpose is to **harm** our computers. there are many other things that can be lost like stealing your data. **Clearing or deleting** the data on your computer. malicious software are not automatically they created by any developer or hacker.
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Malicious Software can come from your computer in many ways, either by downloading them by mistake yourself or by using a **spam email** or through a **website**, because there are many websites on which links to malicious software are available and the same Many spam emails come to people in the daytime, many of these people also download malware and they become obsolete.
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TYPES OF MALWARE
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There are also several types of malicious software that work differently or say hello to our computers and data. Their way of working is different. Some types of malware are as follows.

> **1. Virus**

Virus is the most popular and knowledgeable type of malware. It is so popular that we call the rest of malware as a virus, but there is nothing like this. Virus is a different type, but the most dangerous of a local computer is due to the virus. We also call malware the rest of the malware. virus crosses us as a simple software but when we install it on our computer, it shows us its real color, it either infuses our computer's essential files like operating system or our operating system Crashes, causing our computer to get spoiled and our data gets corrupted. We all know about the virus quite a long time ago.


>  **2. Worms**

Worms are very similar to computer viruses, but the main thing is that it can make many copies of itself, that is, it spreads and can also be infected by going to all or any computer connected to your network. It does not require any instructions to spread it. It may come in your computer at the time of downloading emails, internet surfing, downloading it like a virus or causing damage to your data.

> **3.Trojan**

The beginning of the Trojan horse was in the very ancient times, but when the Greek people made a big wooden horse to attack Troy, a Turkish city in which many sensors had hidden in the turkey and in the night This large wooden horse was given Trojan Horse when he attacked Turkey. In the same way, there are Trojan horses inside the computer that get control over our computer after installation. Basically, the Trojan Horse gets control over the computer and attacks the virus and other malware, causing our data to be corrupted.

> **4.Ransomware**

As the name suggests, ransomware in our computer once it is installed, all our data is encrypted, i.e. it is locked, or is said to be deleted and unlocked or decrypting the same Asked for money from us, just like somebody is asked for a  ransom instead of kidnapping after kidnapping them. Most of the ransomware payments are by bitcoin or cryptocurrency, so that the ransomware's developer or the sender of the ransomware can not be caught.

> **5.Spyware**

The work of Spyware is to keep an eye on all the activities and data that you have done in your computer and send them to someone else, just like a detective, it can be installed with bind to any unknown software as it is very Only small. Spyware is created by targeting a particular person, place or a specific computer, and its job is to monitor your data only.

> **6.Adware**


The adware's main purpose is not to harm your device or data, but after installing it, you start appearing on the home screen without opening an app. It is often seen in the smartphone. Anything happens from the point of downloading.

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