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All About Computer Viruses (Page 1 of 3)

Feel Free to reprint this article in newsletters and on websites, with resource box included. If you use this article, please send a brief message to let me know where it appeared: Your computer is as slow as molasses. Your mouse freezes every 15 minutes, and that Microsoft Word program just won’t seem to open.

You might have a virus.

Just what exactly is a virus? What kind is in your computer? How did it get there? How is it spreading and wreaking such havoc? And why is it bothering with your computer anyway?

Viruses are pieces of programming code that make copies of themselves, or replicate, inside your computer without asking your explicit written permission to do so. Forget getting your permission down on paper. Viruses don’t bother to seek your permission at all! Very invasive.

In comparison, there are pieces of code that might replicate inside your computer, say something your IT guy thinks you need. But the code spreads, perhaps throughout your office network, with your consent (or at least your IT guy’s consent). These types of replicating code are called agents, said Jimmy Kuo, a research fellow with McAfee AVERT, a research arm of anti-virus software-maker McAfee Inc.

In this article, though, we’re not talking about the good guys, or the agents. We’ll be talking about the bad guys, the viruses.

A long, long time ago in computer years, like five, most viruses were comprised of a similar breed. They entered your computer perhaps through an email attachment or a floppy disk (remember those?). Then they attached themselves to one of your files, say your Microsoft Word program.

When you opened your Microsoft Word program, the virus replicated and attached itself to other files. These could be other random files on your hard drive, the files furthest away from your Microsoft Word program, or other files, depending on how the virus writer wanted the virus to behave.

This virus code could contain hundreds or thousands of instructions. When it replicates it inserts those instructions, into the files it infects, said Carey Nachenberg, Chief Architect at Symantec Research Labs, an arm of anti-virus software-maker Symantec. Corp.

Because so many other types of viruses exist now, the kind just described is called a classic virus. Classic viruses still exist but they’re not quite as prevalent as they used to be. (Perhaps we could put classic viruses on the shelf with Hemingway and Dickens.)

These days, in the modern era, viruses are known to spread through vulnerabilities in web browsers, files shared over the internet, emails themselves, and computer networks.

As far as web browsers are concerned, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer takes most of the heat for spreading viruses because it’s used by more people for web surfing than any other browser.

Nevertheless, “Any web browser potentially has vulnerabilities,” Nachenberg said.

For instance, let’s say you go to a website in IE you have every reason to think is safe, Nachenberg said.

All About Computer Viruses (Page 1 of 3)

Feel Free to reprint this article in newsletters and on websites, with resource box included. If you use this article, please send a brief message to let me know where it appeared: Your computer is as slow as molasses. Your mouse freezes every 15 minutes, and that Microsoft Word program just won’t seem to open.

You might have a virus.

Just what exactly is a virus? What kind is in your computer? How did it get there? How is it spreading and wreaking such havoc? And why is it bothering with your computer anyway?

Viruses are pieces of programming code that make copies of themselves, or replicate, inside your computer without asking your explicit written permission to do so. Forget getting your permission down on paper. Viruses don’t bother to seek your permission at all! Very invasive.

In comparison, there are pieces of code that might replicate inside your computer, say something your IT guy thinks you need. But the code spreads, perhaps throughout your office network, with your consent (or at least your IT guy’s consent). These types of replicating code are called agents, said Jimmy Kuo, a research fellow with McAfee AVERT, a research arm of anti-virus software-maker McAfee Inc.

In this article, though, we’re not talking about the good guys, or the agents. We’ll be talking about the bad guys, the viruses.

A long, long time ago in computer years, like five, most viruses were comprised of a similar breed. They entered your computer perhaps through an email attachment or a floppy disk (remember those?). Then they attached themselves to one of your files, say your Microsoft Word program.

When you opened your Microsoft Word program, the virus replicated and attached itself to other files. These could be other random files on your hard drive, the files furthest away from your Microsoft Word program, or other files, depending on how the virus writer wanted the virus to behave.

This virus code could contain hundreds or thousands of instructions. When it replicates it inserts those instructions, into the files it infects, said Carey Nachenberg, Chief Architect at Symantec Research Labs, an arm of anti-virus software-maker Symantec. Corp.

Because so many other types of viruses exist now, the kind just described is called a classic virus. Classic viruses still exist but they’re not quite as prevalent as they used to be. (Perhaps we could put classic viruses on the shelf with Hemingway and Dickens.)

These days, in the modern era, viruses are known to spread through vulnerabilities in web browsers, files shared over the internet, emails themselves, and computer networks.

As far as web browsers are concerned, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer takes most of the heat for spreading viruses because it’s used by more people for web surfing than any other browser.

Nevertheless, “Any web browser potentially has vulnerabilities,” Nachenberg said.

For instance, let’s say you go to a website in IE you have every reason to think is safe, Nachenberg said.

How To Get Quality Links To Increase Your Website Traffic

How To Build Your List, Get Quality Links and Increase Your Website Ranking Easily

As you already know getting traffic is one or the most difficult task you can encounter as an Internet  marketer. Traffic has to be targeted in order to provide building an opt-in list of future customers that will generate the profits that you will need for growing your business.

Pay-per Click (PPC) Campaigns

While There are several ways to get that traffic the most effective and fast way to do this is Pay-per-Click advertising, this is a  method that can be used for building your opt-in list real fast. Google Ad Words and Overture are probably the best known of the PPC services. This form of advertisement is not recommended for everyone.  Sometimes it can be very time consuming and very, very expensive.

Blogs and Forums

Blogs and Forums are quickly becoming one of the most popular and easiest ways for anyone to publish content to the web and get free traffic. Blogs have become quite the hot topic over the last year.  They allow users to easily create their own websites, without knowing any html coding. The search engines love them since blogs are indexed by the search engines quickly better than regular websites. You can link your website to the blog and get the free traffic. While this method is not fully guaranteed it has results.  You will need lots of good content to keep the traffic coming to your website and to your blog. But the catch is that it will require more than one blog to get it accomplished and can become time consuming.

When posting to forums you’ll need a lot of time in your hands. Forum wrangling is tedious and time consuming also. You will need to find forums that have good topics in which you will post  and discuss with other participants. Both methods required that you post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other forums, blogs, articles and websites in your posts.  These type of   traffic doesn’t happen quickly, this is something you must do continuously every day to build up.

Article Writing

Article writing is another  way of getting free traffic. Is probably the favorite way of  many marketers in generating traffic for their website. Simply by writing and submitting the articles to article  directories. The more articles you write and submit to directories the more traffic and back links you will build for your website. While article submission isn’t anything astonishing new to the world of Search Engine Optimization, many people still don’t do it… and for good reason. It’s time consuming and takes so incredibly long time to do this manually.

Article Submissions

There are software programs that will submit your articles to hundreds of directories with a few keystrokes. One such program is Article Submitter. The software cost nothing at the time of this writing. With the software you can quickly and easily submit your website to hundreds of article directories with a few mouse clicks. This free software can help get the targeted traffic that you need, plus will help get your website listed on the top search engine rankings in all the major search engines quickly.  Visit this blog and read the blog post  “How To Get Free Targeted Traffic Using Articles” or just click on the link: (http://blogtipsezine.wordpress.com .)

I can’t think of an easier way to get links. Of course, if you’re going to get links this quickly, it’s important to submit different variations of your articles, to make things look more natural to the search engines.