Viruses?

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kentaidondulay

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What do Viruses, Trojans, and Other Malware Actually Do? Thanks for the answer and advice
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Anything and everything. Most just corrupt your system. Meaning, they make your operating system not function anymore. Some are made to spy on you. There are many attack vectors. One being through E-mail attachments. And those are typically designed to hack a network.
 
Some can turn your computer into a bot, which they'll use to harness your CPU power or act as a mail relay to send spam around the globe.
 
Malware can also infect certain vulnerable routers and turn them into a bot as well. I've seen quite a few try to connect to my website. I feel bad for these people who don't know their router is a bot. Because their Internet speed must be painfully slow and probably blame it on their ISP. It's a world wide epidemic.
 
From what I have been seeing is the decline of Viruses that are designed to do damage, seeing a lot more data collection. I am not saying that they are going away but there is much more money in data being collected or held ransom then destroying it.
 
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