“Hey! My computer is really slow I think I have a ….. Whatever do you call that stuff now?” Does anyone except the computer geeks know the difference “between a virus and a worm? Think a ‘rootkit’ is used in the garden, or a ‘botnet’ is something out of Star Wars? Read on to brush up on your cybercrime lexicon.

In the past, PCs were mainly under threat from viruses and worms. The main purpose of these programs was to spread; however, some programs were also designed to cause damage to files and PCs. Such malicious software, or “malware”, could be described as ‘cyber vandalism’. Read on if you keep asking yourself what all those terms mean when your IT support person says you’re infected!

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We all have that looming fear of catching something, something infectious or malicious! OK maybe not looming like an Alfred Hitchcock Novel but just the same or computers are our life line to the world around us and a tool that can bring productivity to its knees when it doesn’t work properly.

Our good friends over at Kaspersky Labs have detailed some interesting FACTS about this subject

From computer vandalism to crimeware;

Until quite recently, viruses and other malicious programs tended to be isolated acts of computer vandalism, anti-social self-expression using hi-tech means. Most viruses confined themselves to infecting other disks or programs. And 'damage' was largely defined in terms of loss of data as a virus erased or [less often] corrupted data stored on affected disks.

Over the course of the last few years this has changed. Today we're faced with 'crimeware', malicious code created for the purpose of making money illegally. The criminal underground has clearly realized the potential for making money from malicious code in a 'wired' world and much of today's threats are written 'to order'.

If this peaks your interest then please read the Full article: http://www.security-technologynews.com/article/kaspersky-lab-white-paper-the-malware-business.html