SpywareandViruses-ICUComputerRepair.pdfVIP

Spyware and Viruses Spyware and Viruses Spyware and Viruses Spyware and Viruses Spyware and viruses are getting to be the largest problem in the battle of keeping your computer running smoothly and being able to use your computer with any kind of efficiency. There is a distinct difference between spyware and viruses. VirusesViruses can and do cause damage to your computer, your files, and VirusesViruses the software programs you use. Viruses attack your computer at the base level of programming. As some of you know, computers use a binary language as where we as humans, use a base 10 language. Computers do tasks and perform calculations based on the binary or base 2 programming. This basically means that a computer uses ones and zeros as a communication tool to do its job. When a virus infects the code inside of your computer it changes the meaning of certain commands that cause your computer to freeze or lock up or just cause errors. An example of this would be something like this: 111 1 11101 1 may mean something like.. launch Microsoft word... as to where... 11 11 010 1 may mean, lets go to McDonalds for lunch! Its a matter of how and where the ones and zeros are placed. Viruses eat or destroy bits of data like the missing ones and zeros that you see above that cause malfunctions or miscommunications with your computer. A lot of times, the only way to fix this kind of damage is to first get rid of the virus and then reinstall the affected software. Spyware Spyware and Malwareand Malware on the other hand is just purely annoying and SpywareSpyware and Malwareand Malware generally slows your computer down to a crawl if it is even usable. Spyware usually doesnt harm your