via bbc.com
Viruses are known to bring trouble - whether they make you sick or mess up your computer.
But these past few years, computer viruses have become much more elaborate. Criminals do not stop at stealing someone's personal data.
The cyber menace showed its true potential when the Stuxnet virus targeted Iranian infrastructure in 2010, in an apparent bid to disrupt the country's uranium enrichment programme.
As computers organise and dominate more and more of our world, five distinct threats are emerging, says Eugene Kaspersky, founder and chief executive of Russian computer security firm Kaspersky Lab and speaker at this year's Counter Terror Expo in London.
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