What is Malware? Why should I remove it?

Malware is a malicious software program, designed to steal user’s personal information and track his/her actions on the system that may lead to loss of privacy. Malware installs itself on the system without the user’s knowledge and resides in disguised fashion. Malware can carry out damaging activities on your PC that adversely affect your PC stability. Malware includes worms, trojans, rootkits, rogues, adwares, spyware, keyloggers and more. Malware adversely affects your PC’s proper functioning and performance.

This is why it is important to routinely scan for malware and remove them to protect your computer.