I will describe various malware types here briefly. I won’t
go into much detail here I will explain each type in detail when we will
analyze that. Let me clear one thing first today’s malware cannot be strictly
categorized in one category as they have characteristics of more than one type.
Malware is usually categorized based its capabilities and modern malware is
hybrid malware that is designed to do multiple functions such as stealing data,
providing backdoor access, infecting files, etc. The categories are merely
created for classifying malware its not mandatory to spend much time on
categorizing malware it’s just for convenience.
There are many categories of malware but I will cover only
the popular and common one’s.
So don’t wasting time here are various types of malware:
Trojan
Trojan or Trojan horse name came from ancient Greek history,
Trojan horse allowed an army to sneak into highly guarded gate.
