Malware and Average Individual

Malware is prevalent throughout the world wide web (WWW), meaning internet users may encounter malware throughout their lives. With the Malware enlargement and advanced cyber-attacks are now evolving into serious concerns. Unidentified malware, which security vendors have not determined, is frequently utilized in these attacks since it is challenging to detect it. Therefore, internet users must be conscious of that and their awareness should be increased. Since some malware masquerades as a useful, legitimate program, it is integral to understand how it appears on a system and what becomes affected. Therefore, malware detection mechanism has attracted researchers in the past decades to prevent network environments and users from becoming victims of malicious software. Thus, in this paper, we intend to study the behavior and characteristics of certain malware in a controlled environment. Moreover, we have also made an attempt to understand the behavior of users who download malicious software and how they can mitigate and remove the malware.