Removing Malware

The term "Malware" is a broad, generalised name for software that is installed on your system intended to perform malicious, harmful or undesirable actions.  It is often installed on your system without you realising it – it may be installed by updates, highjacked sites or, most commonly, "piggybacked” onto other programs whose authors receive a fee to have it included with their program or resource.  

Here we look first at some removal/cleaning steps and then a bit more at what malware is.