Top Most Dangerous Computer Viruses

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Top Most Dangerous Computer Viruses- How to Secure Your PC

Viruses are worst enemy of computer; they harm our system in worst way possible. Some of them are capable of destroying each and every single file of your system.

Top most dangerous computer viruses are provided to show the history of such viruses which hovered over the net and effected many users time to time. Some measures for the questions of How to secure your PC are also given for the prevention of such intrusions.

Top Most Dangerous Computer Viruses:

I love You:

The Virus was spread through showing a love message that spread widely, its main effects were that it destroyed all the files of users and would send its copy to the other contacts listed in users contact list. This virus made major companies to shut down their e-mail services.

Conficker Virus:

A virus capable of intruding in system and disclose all the financial information was taken to be the most dangerous virus as it was impossible to detect and prevent the problem caused by this virus.

Agent.btz:

It was used to create a falls army and subject a new war form for the cyber wars in world. This virus targeted the US army website and was spread by a thumbdrive.

Zeus:

Created in 2007 this virus was capable of showing all the passwords and information of the user making the accounts of a user vulnerable to the usage to an anonymous party.

Poison Ivy:

It gave the manual handling power to the one who infected it over the system of the user affected by this virus. He/she could manually override and could use all the system function easily if once this virus is installed on a user’s PC.

MyDoom:

A virus that bounced over other system and get installed as soon as the user opens the email, this virus would load a user’s hard disk with information it hatched from other PC’s.

Fizzer:

Spam virus worked on providing the porn and pharmacy sites with a slow form of its ancestors like CodeRed.

Slammer:

A futuristic concept of viruses lay its hand over internet with disruption of many important services like 911 emergency line of America.

Code Red:

It affected due to a bug in Microsoft and resulted in crashing of many websites, these websites also included American government website thus making other government websites vulnerable.

How to Secure your PC:

The best way to secure your PC is to always keep an updated antivirus installed in your system.

Do not open the spam messages with attractive subjects and if using an anonymous USB drive be sure to scan it carefully.