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Detecting Computer Malware

In today’s world cybercriminals are putting forth every effort to make malware difficult to detect. Successfully, I might add. Ever confident, I thought I would have a go at providing information on how to make their job a little tougher. This requires you to know your system inside out which means what process are normal and which applications were installed by you. This is tricky and at the same time risky. Terminating a memory resident program that is critical to a system may cause some undesirable results, such as displaying the Blue Screen of Death or even triggering the system to restart. It is advisable to check if a specific memory-resident program is indeed alien to the system, which is not an easy task. You can either consult your operating system manual or search for that program in an Internet search engine. If the search returns no results or does not indicate a relation to any recent malware, it is best that you leave it alone
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