These want you to click on dodgy links to sites that will infect your computer, or get you to submit sensitive personal and financial information.

A website may seem legitimate, but in fact be a clever fake designed to steal your data or infect your computer.

Senior execu-tives curious about possible job offers are tricked into opening attachments that infect their computer, giving the hackers access to their network.

A malicious applet can infect a computer system in many ways, including denial of service, invasion of privacy, and annoyance.

They persuaded them they were suspected of crimes before infecting their computers with a virus called 'ransomware' which locked the equipment.

The fungi can infect the plant during any stage from the flower to the berry.

When the flowers open, spores from these mummified berries are expelled and infect the plant.

The ascospores enter through the stomata to infect the plant.

The conidia infect the plant by entering through small wounds, stomata, or direct penetration.

The fungus enters the plant through natural openings such as stomates, and needs soft tissue such as the flowers, anthers and embryo to infect the plant.

A closer inspection revealed a snare wound on her left lower leg and a deep infected cut above it.

It was named after the daughter of migrant workers who died after failing to receive medical treatment for an infected cut on her foot.

There have been reports of rashes and infected cuts.

The parasite infects the cells of the gut wall.

The parasite infects its hosts with its cells after piercing them with polar filaments ejected from nematocyst-like capsules.

This parasite infects human and animals, and may lead to death.

In the event of being placed in a letterbox that has multiple hitchhikers in it (such as a hitchhiker hostel), the parasite infects all of the hitchhikers inside.

This parasite infects almost any warm-blooded vertebrate.

Each winter a different strain of the flu virus infects many, normally over a six to eight-week period.

More serious disorders occur when the virus infects and damages the eye (herpes keratitis), or invades the central nervous system, damaging the brain (herpes encephalitis).

The virus infects the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, the brain, and spinal cord.

This defines the manner in which a virus infects a new host cell.

The virus infects the cells in the ectodermal layer of the skin.