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What Kinds of Viruses are Prevalent Today and How do you Protect your Business?

12 March 2010

In recent years, the Internet has emerged as one of the best ways to earn money from the comfort of your home. Many people set up online businesses and become successful. However, the Internet is also a giant land ripe with various predators looking to steal your personal information and gain access to your personal finances.

They can do this through any one of a number of viruses. Even on the low end, a computer virus can be harmful to your business because they can potentially destroy data and ruin everything youve worked for. Because of the huge number of viruses out there, its always important to protect yourself against them.

There are multiple types of viruses, including adware, browser hijackers, Trojans, dialers, cookies (tracking or malicious), and worst of the bunch, the full-blown virus: the information-stealing, computer-crashing bug that eats away at your software.

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