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There are several common but very popular viruses that everyone can catch nowadays. That's swine flue and malicious software. Swine flue can be dangerous to your health though in the most cases it can't be very harmful. Malware can be dangerous to you computer system though in the careful attitude and your help your system can recover without any complications. Most of us know what malware is. Malware is a malicious program created to wreck your system and files you have on your PC. Sometimes it can even secretly spy on all your computer actions. There are several types of malwares: adwares, viruses, worms, trojans and spywares.

How to detect malware on your computer?
Usually all computers infected by malwares have several signs that show malware's presents on PC. If speed of your computer suddenly became very low that's the first symptom of this malicious infection. Sometimes you PC even can hang. If you noticed multiple popup windows suddenly showing on your screen that's also can be result of malwares.

How can you be infected by malware? The programmers responsible for malwares are so evil that you can get malwares almost with everything if your antivirus is not very successful.
1. You can be infected by checking your mail (that's why we recommend you to scan all your emails with antivirus software before opening).
2. You can catch some Trojans or spywares while surfing the web. The malware can be hidden in code of the web page. The best advice we can give you is never visit illegal or immoral websites which are often responsible for spreading malwares.
3. When you share with someone different illegal files (music, video, software) you very often can be infected malwares that were hidden in files.
4. You maybe get infection by clicking popup messages. These popups are usually very similar to Windows error messages requesting you to 'click here' to receive protection or stop the error. When you click on such messages you execute the malware.
5. While sharing files via Instant Messaging Software. Instant messaging software became very popular nowadays and it's hard to find a person who doesn't have such programs on PC. You should always remember that it's better not to share files with help of such software because it's very popular among the malware senders too.
6. If one of computers of your network got malware you'll seriously are risking getting it too. All network computers must be protected by antivirus software and a firewall to prevent infecting all computers and damaging the data.

How to remove malware from your computer?
It's not very difficult task when you have good antivirus. You can run automatic scan and see if you have malwares or not. If you have them they simply will be deleted from your system files. You can try to delete malware manually but this is not so easy job as using automatic scan. If you leave at lest one single malware's file in the registry it can emerge again and again damaging your computer and destroying your data, slowing down computer speed (averting you to try to do something about it) and bombarding you with millions of popup windows making you to go off into hysterics.

You can get tips how to remove fake antivirus from your computer.