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Threats to your PC’s security

Threats to your privacy and security come in many shapes and forms these days. Let’s start by taking a brief tour of the different types of malware around to provide you with a better understanding of what to look out for.

Virus/worm

Traditionally malware was conflated with the term ‘virus’. However, viruses are a specific form of malware: code inserted into other files (such as macros in Microsoft Office documents,

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