7 Dangerous Computer Viruses Most Users Attack Users

CyberNews404 - Like a human virus, computer viruses can also infect your machine in various ways. The virus will certainly make your computer system can not work optimally.

Some viruses can even encrypt your data, steal data and even spread the virus to other computers via a LAN network.

In this article, CyberNews404 will explain the 7 most common viruses that often infect our computers. This virus is certainly quite dangerous if constantly ignored.

Malicious Computer Virus

1. Boot Sector Virus

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Boot sector virus is one of the dangerous computer virus that often attacks the user. This type of virus will directly attack the master boot record of a PC.

Boot Sector virus will encrypt your BIOS and can cause your computer cannot get into the operating system. They are quite difficult to remove unless formatted.

The virus is spread through external data storage media, such as USB Flash Drive, hard disk, and floppy disks. Infection of this virus began to decline due to the current BIOS architecture is better.


2. Direct Action Virus

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Direct Action Virus is a type of virus that usually develops when users accidentally download suspicious files that have EXE or COM extension.

When the user executes the file, the virus will automatically expand and look for other files stored in your directory.

Fortunately, this type of virus will not delete or hide your data. In addition, the virus is easily removed with regular antivirus.

3. Resident Virus

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Resident Virus is a type of virus that usually infects files. This virus installs automatically on the user's computer. This allows the virus to keep working even if its 'parent' has been eradicated.

To remove this type of resident virus usually requires unique tools, such as a patch operating system or reinstall PC.

4. Multipartite Virus

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Multipartite Virus is a type of virus that can infect computers in various ways. This virus can perform different actions on a computer. They can infect the boot sector and execute certain files quickly.

With so many attacks, this will certainly make this type of virus will be difficult to remove. The best way to get rid of multipartite viruses is to reinstall and remove the entire drive.

5. Polymorphic Virus

According to one of the leading antivirus makers, Symantec, Polymorphic Virus is the most difficult virus to detect. Polymorphic Virus will change the signatures (binary pattern) every time he attacks.

6. Overwrite Virus

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Overwrite virus is a type of virus that is quite annoying users. Although this virus does not attack directly on the user's operating system. Virus overwrite is spread by email, making it difficult to identify.

This virus will remove the content from the infected file. One way to get rid of this virus is to delete the file. But when we delete, of course, the files and content will be lost.

7. Spacefiller Virus

Commonly known as 'Cavity Viruses', Spacefiller Virus is a virus that is smart enough then their brothers. This virus usually appears suddenly on an empty drive/folder.
Spacefiller This virus will infect the BIOS, input/output system, and other parts of a computer so that the computer can not start.
Spacefiller Virus is somewhat difficult to detect. Even so, with the current sophistication of antivirus, Spacefiller Virus can be eradicated easily.
That's the 7 types of computer viruses that most often attack the user. If you know other viruses, do not forget to share in the comment field.