Computer viruses on your computer in Townsville, can not only slow your productivity down, they can also delete all your files, take control of your computer and cost you money, wiping your account out and subjecting you to offline complications such as personal identity theft.

At its basic level computer virus’s are malicious software you have accidently downloaded or someone has installed your computer, to insight mayhem, steel your money and make your computer do things it was not designed to do.

But there are signs that your computer might have a virus, if you know what to look for.

Your computer is running slow

Software engineers and developers are usually very good at their jobs.

For the most part, most software runs very good and optimised on your computer. However, when viruses are present and start infecting your existing applications and operating system, those software packages begin to run incorrectly and erratically.

A lot of the time this can cause your computer to clog up buy asking to much of the existing system and hardware and as a result your computer or particular programs start running very slow.

Your friends or people you know are complaining

Most computers are connected to the internet now. This means you are connected by associations and routes to all the other computers on the internet in the world.

You probably have contacts on your computer, people you email or other applications which use these contacts to initiate communication.

Some viruses will use your address book to send their tentacles out and send emails or messages to people on your behalf asking them to click on links or download things you never agreed to.

You will soon know when your phone starts ring and the complaints come rushing in.

Pop-ups popping up everywhere

There is nothing more annoying than popups. Popups are little programs usually download accidently through your web browser that notify you of things your usually not interested in, try and drive you in a certain direction or annoy you so much you find it impossible to use your computer.

A lot of the time these popups are usually harmless. Other times they are part of a rogue suite of applications that try and make money from you in one way or another, usually in the form of advertisements all over your screen constantly.

Money missing or attempts to login to your financials

If money has gone missing from your bank account, or someone has been trying to log into your finacials like Paypal or internet banking, you could have a virus on your computer.

Everything online is protected by a password.

Criminals can install programs called keyloggers on your computer that record every stroke you make on your keyboard and send them to the criminals.

These keystrokes could also include passwords you use for various sites such as PayPal, internet banking or Facebook, pretty much anything you use a password for.

This is why it is always good to use 2-factor authentication which uses 2 ways to login you in each time, usually a password and text verification to your mobile device or email account.

Someone knows a lot about what you are doing

In my opinion these are the worst kind of viruses, they compromise your computer, steel your money and serious put your personal safety at risk.

We do everything on our computes now. Store important family and historical information, plan building homes, travel, organise business and banking and anything else business and personal you can think about.

Having a computer spyware virus on your computer is the equivalent of someone looking over your shoulder and watching and recording every little thing you do.

If you are contacted all of the sudden by people who seem to know a lot about your life, you could have spyware on your computer.

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