The purpose of the malicious software can turn the computer into a "zombie" that can use as the medium for the hacker operation.

Modern malicious software does not always destroy data. The malicious code can allow hackers to highjack the computers And use them to medium in their operations. Using the highjacked  "zombie machine" as the transmitter the hacker is harder to track. The operation can contain the delivering the trolls and other things in the network. And at the final stage, the hacker would detonate the logic bomb inside the targeted computer. The logic bomb means the computer code that destroys the data in the system that it cannot use to trace the hackers. 

A couple of words about malicious software and what is the best place to get an infection? The malicious software is the boogeyman of the internet. People are warned about the pornographic pages that can load malware like a computer virus to the computer. Many people think that computer viruses are just destroying the files in the hard drive. But the thing is not so simple as we might think. 

The Troyan horse is a computer virus that plays some kind of utility program. The hackers can use the computers of regular internet users for net attacking banks or companies. The remote computer can use for making illegal things on the internet. Things like port scanning and other things can cause problems for the person who owns the highjacked computer. 

The hackers can try to change the bank account numbers in their targeted homepages or transfer the network traffic to phishing pages. And in that fake homepage, the user would cheat to give the data like the password to the email and other services. The banks are not using paper card-based confirmation numbers anymore. And that thing is making the phishing attack by using fake homepages less effective than before. 

But things like cryptocurrency firms are also suitable targets for hackers. They might try to channel the currency that flows in the bank accounts of the cryptocurrency companies to their bank accounts. Or try to steal the algorithm that is used to make those cryptocurrencies. And then make their own faked crypto money. 

The malicious software is the code that is connected to the thing that looks like useful software. And one of those things that can contain malicious program code is things like Adobe updates from some strange address. The homepage tells that the flash-player requires the update and then there is the link to the page, where that thing can get. And that homepage is not Adobe's official. 

Probably in that update is involved not-wanted code. And that thing is the so-called Troyan horse. The Troyan horse is the malicious software that is playing useful software. And the malicious software can make many other things than just destroy files. One thing that infection can cause is that the hacker is taking the computer under control. And when the user is somewhere else that system would start to send trolls and other things on social media. 

The hacker can cause very much trouble by using remote computers for sending spamming and trolling. In the worst case, the infected computers are used for bot-network attacks against some services. And that thing can cause very big damages claims. And the net would be cut during the criminal prosecution process. 

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