No matter how many firewall or Anti-virus software you have installed in your computer, still your computer can be attacked. Talking about computer security, there are many terms that are used quite often. You hear about them often or read about them but still if you are not very sure about their meanings then you have come to the right page. Here we will see the definitions and meanings of these terms.

1. Anti-virus: Anti-virus is a software application. It will scan the computer and tell us if ...

You may have read news about planes being hijacked. For example a passenger plane which is supposed to go to London may be hijacked by terrorists and flown to Turkey. The hijack virus does just that. If you key in a website address in your browser’s address bar and press ‘Enter’ then instead of going to that website the browser may open some other website such as an adult website or an advertisement website or a search engine website. If this happens in your computer then your browser h...