Viruses and worms are the most well known of the Malware family, and as the name implies, they “crawl” through your computer and infect it. Originally, the term computer virus was used for a program, which infected other executable software, while a worm transmitted itself over a network to infect computers. Viruses and worms are [...]

The term “Malware” is just short for malicious software and it refers to software designed to “infect” a computer and cause damage to the computer’s hard drive, server or even its entire network (if applicable). Malware includes “viruses,” “spyware,” “adware” (when it takes the form of spyware and tracks, reports and sales a user’s activity), [...]

In laymen’s terms, a Windows Registry is a centralized database used in Microsoft Windows 9x, Windows CE, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 to store settings and options for the operating system. It contains information and settings for all the hardware, software, users, and preferences of the PC. The Registry contains information that Windows refers back [...]