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Bots and botnets are commonly associated with cybercriminals stealing data, identities, credit card numbers and worse. But bots can also serve good purposes. Separating good bots from bad can also make a big difference in how you protect your company’s website and ensure that that your site gets the Internet traffic it deserves. Most good bots are essentially crawlers sent out from the world’s biggest web sites to index content for their search engines and social media platforms. You WANT those bots to visit you. They bring you more business! Shutting them down as part of strategy to block bad bots is a losing strategy. Here, in reverse order of how likely they are to visit any web site, are the 10 most important good bots that you should know about now. Make sure your security strategy welcomes these bots (or at least know why you chose to block them)! 1. Googlebot  :- Googlebot is Google’s web crawling bot (sometimes also called a “spider”). Googlebot uses an algori...

Malware , a shortened combination of the words malicious and software, is a catch-all term for any sort of software designed with malicious intent.That malicious intent is often theft of your private information or the creation of a backdoor to your computer so someone can gain access to it without your permission. What are Common Types of Malware? Virus Spyware Worm Trojan horse Browser hijacker Rootkit Malvertising How Does a Malware Infection Happen? Malware can infect a computer or other device in a number of ways. It usually happens completely by accident, often times by way of downloading software that is bundled with a malicious application. How Do You Remove Malware? The most common types of malware are actual programs like the legitimate software you use every day. Those programs can be uninstalled, just like anything else, from Control Panel, at least in Windows operating systems. How to secure? The most important way to prevent malware from reaching...