What is Windows?

Windows is a personal computer operating system from Microsoft that, together with some
commonly used business applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel, has
become a de facto "standard" for individual users in most corporations as well as in most
homes. It provides a graphical user interface (GUI), virtual memory management,
multitasking, and support for many peripheral devices.The reason why this is so is mainly
because Windows is much more user friendly and everything comes pre-packaged so user
just have to run the application and follow instructions for it to install.
There are many versions of Windows Operating System available namely:

Windows 95

Windows 98

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Windows Vista

Windows 7,8,10

Among all those versions, Windows 7 and 10 are most popular.

A Brief Story On Windows

Windows mainly concentrated on providing an operating system which was user-friendly,
stable and less prone to crashes when they were implementing earlier versions.

Vulnerabilities Of Windows
What is vulnerability? - It is a weakness that makes a threat possible. These vulnerabilities
are used by attackers who exploits them to convey multiple attack, including enticing the
users to open harmful and malicious media or to visit website which has a lot of viruses.The
user just has to install the appropriate Microsoft patches or they are sometimes installed
automatically with the help of Windows Update.

Window Update
Windows periodically releases security patches mostly as Window Updates to fix those
defects. There exists different level of security known as the security level system in
Windows which describes the different levels of security holes:

Threats & Attacks

There are many types of threats and attacks that Windows has to face. Also the fact that
Windows operating system are most common among computer users, they are thus the
more targeted by attackers.

Threat V/S Attack

What is a threat? - A potential occurrence malicious or otherwise that may harm an asset
What is an attack? - An action taken to harm an asset
From the two definitions above, we can say that a threat is more the possibility of doing
harm to the Windows system, while attack is mainly the action taken to violate security
settings.

Malware (malicious Programs)

It consists of any program that is installed either with or without permission of user, and
whose aim is to cause harm to user's pc by either gaining partial or full access to the
system. Its impact can vary from slight as changing a folder's name to full control of your
machine without the ability for the user to easily find out.

Types of Malicious Programs:

- computer viruses
- worms
- Trojan horses

Computer Viruses
They are programs designed to cause harm to our computer system or the applications on
the software. They are often attached to files which appear to be harmless to the operating
system, but as soon as it is installed, the computer will operate different. There are viruses
which even manage to close your computer without your permission.

Types of Computer Viruses:

* Boot sector computer viruses
* Email viruses
* Companion viruses

Worms
Trojan horse
Spyware
Prevention against Malware
Antivirus
Anti-spyware
Anti-adware
*Making Windows more secure*
1. Virtualisation
2. User Account Control
3. Browser
4. Safe Internet Practices

Conclusion
Best thing about Windows is that he can run on almost every PC in your
environment.In this time,you can find Windows on internet for
free,download easly and use like a pro.In my opinion,amateur programerss
like myself,is the best for the to use first Windows O.S(newest version in
best case scenario) to learn basic in there,and than move to Linux
OS,which is the more complex than Windows,and for more advanced IT
geeks.

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