Malicious Software

Malicious software also known as malware is a computer program created with malicious intents. It performs some malicious tasks such as stealing your identity, key logging, disrupt system, damage data or may attack other computers. It may be installed unintentionally when users open unsolicited emails, visit pornography and warez sites or just simply attacked by unknown source while being online. Usually unpatched systems or systems with vulnerable applications will easily become target to malware.

Malicious software includes

* Trojan horse
* Virus
* Worms

Interspersed among real virus notices are computer virus hoaxes. While these hoaxes do not infect systems, but they are time consuming and costly to handle. Read about Internet Hoax if you receive an unvalidated warning about viruses or trojans.

Please regularly check the below sites whenever you receive a virus alert.

* Antivirus sites
* Hoax database sites

If you suspect that your computer has been infected by malicious software, you may need to run a freeware tool called HijackThis and investigate its output. If you are unable to do so, you can email us at mycert [at] mycert.org.my with the attachment of the output. Another tool that could be used to remove malicious software is SUPERAntiSpyware.

Please read our brief guide on how to use these two software and how to obtain logs as below.

* HijackThis
* SUPERAntiSpyware