Piracy causes problems
Many a time the problem of malicious software being downloaded from the internet is connected with piracy. People like free downloadable music and movies. The immoral elements know these facts and take full advantage of this fact. Many a times you download a song from the internet and then play it, you will find that your operating system start providing you evidences by pop up signs that there is some mal ware activity going on in your system.
The most corrupted web pages are those having porn links. The immoral spy ware programmers know that internet is basically being used for two things either pornography or for music. Thus they tend to attack these web pages. Once you open these pages the malicious virus enters your computer and corrupts your files. Most of the cracks that you download from the internet are basically viruses known as Trojan horses. These viruses are so malicious that they can sometimes enter you computer even if you have anti virus soft ware installed in your computer. You can find the source of these viruses with the help of internet history option as you have the list of the recent visited corrupted WebPages and can visit those pages that did it all.
Another thing that you can witness is that your operating system not working properly due to these malicious software. They do not directly affect your folders but install a program in the background that can damage your computer at a slow rate corrupting system files. Nowadays there are websites that need the users to install certain software before accessing the content. These are not the software needed to gain access but are spy wares that actually monitor you activity on your PC and can read your keystrokes. These soft wares are used to get access to passwords of the user and then can herm the user financially.
Gradually your computer becomes a spot for these malicious activities. This not only affects you, but slowly it spreads to that entire computer that is connected in network to your computer. Thus this spreads like a plague. Your computer can be made an engine for spamming other computers connected to you. Thus you might have understood the need of stopping piracy as it leads to virus infection. Hence it is recommended to go for a licensed version of software in your computer rather than downloading spy wares later.
by Camila 19 years ago