Malware

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Table of Contents

• About Malware
• Malware Classification
  • By Types

About Malware

Malware is still a force to be reckoned with, and advances in technology did not slow it down.

Malware (short for “malicious software”) is a file or code, typically delivered over a network, that infects, explores, steals or conducts virtually any behavior an attacker wants. And because malware comes in so many variants, there are numerous methods to infect computer systems

Malware Types

There are many possible ways of categorizing malware and some malicious software may overlap into two or more categories.Broadly, software can categorised into three types:

• (i) goodware;
• (ii) greyware
• and (iii) malware.

Type	Characteristics	Examples	Notes
Goodware	Obtained from trustworthy sources	Google Play apps, Buggy software
Malware	Broad consensus among antivirus software that program is malicious or obtained from flagged sources.	Viruses, Worms, Root kits, Backdoors, Ransomware, Trojan horses
Greyware	Insufficient consensus and/or metrics	Potentially unwanted programs, Spyware Adware.