- Threat of the year since 2012. Attackers enter your PC through unpatched software and encrypt all your files. Can you afford to pay a $600 ransom to get your own data back?
Banking Trojans
- Hackers use phishing techniques and keyloggers to get your most valuable passwords and empty your bank- or PayPal-accounts invisibly within seconds.
Bots/Backdoors
- They turn your PC into a remote controlled zombie. Then your computing power is collectively sold on the black market to send spams, attack others or store illegal content.
Pups
- Potentially Unwanted Programs that mess up your computer with useless browser toolbars, tons of commercials and other bulk that slows down the PC.