We now know the faces of malware, the question arises, "Is my computer affected by malware?" Please check the following common symptoms and take immediate action. A common symptom of malware infection is the home page hijacking, piracy search engine, pop-ups, and system crashes.
Piracy Home Page
Home page hijacking is when malware to change your web browser's home page and then lock it so we can not change back to the original selection. Alternatively, the home page can be changed, but additional malware to be installed as soon as we return home page. For example, some malware will allow us to change the home page to the URL option, but it was followed by the loss of the display screen and a large search toolbar that can not be turned off permanently.
It should be noted that there are also "hijacking" home page that was done deliberately, for example by computer suppliers, ISPs, and locked the office to the home page URL of their choice (to the home page or the company's support pages). Piracy as we know it is usually straight and not clarified as malware. Malware is often characterized by abrupt changes. Those of us who had always been able to change the home page, but suddenly can no longer.
Piracy Search Engine
One of the most popular forms of malware is hijacking search engine. Suddenly search engines as we know it in the web browser disappeared, replaced by foreign search engines. Often the search engine settings no longer works or if it works, there is no option to choose a regular search engine. Other common symptoms of malware is the emergence of a new toolbar which claim to provide web search services. It may appear at the top or bottom of the screen and often can not be turned off, either temporarily or permanently.
Pop-Up Ads
Pop-up ads can be a normal part of internet surfing. However, pop-up ads that appear when the user is not actively surfing the Internet is not normal, nor is it normal that there are so many ads that appear so that the connection is slow or become silent or locked computer, nor is it normal to have a pop-up window that fills the whole screen and can not be closed.
Scareware
Scareware is software scams. He is also known as "rogue scanner" or "software trickster" whose purpose is to scare people into buying or installing. Just like trojans, scareware deceive users so unwittingly install the product. Scareware doing scary tactics with display screen that says your computer is under attack and then claim to be the solution to the problem.
Scareware using virus alerts and false system problems. False warnings are very convincing and will fool most of the people who see it. Examples of scareware is sytem Security scare people by displaying a blue screen that shows Windows crashes with a window warning that urges us to fix the problem.
Crash System
System crashes always happen although rare compared to two years ago. Many things done to improve the stability of Internet Explorer. Kernel32.dll errors are usually caused by the graphics card driver is very rare now.
So, how to distinguish regular crashes and crash malware? First, malware crashes often involve unusual file names, misalnyadjiofg982746.dll or may refer to the module (file) is not known. Second, malware crash can occur when you are not doing anything. Indeed, the PC can be turned on, but remained silent.
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