Computer viruses. The person might have a computer virus infection when the computer. For instance getting slow or when they turn. The next thing usually the person whose computer might be infected with. The person might think that all the work that have been.
That could be true, but in most cases viruses have not. When some people try to get rid of. That is not the best way to act when the person think. What people do when they get sick? They go to see a doctor if they do. It is the same way with viruses, if the.
If the person read email at their PC or if they use diskettes to transfer. They might get viruses also when they download files from. There was a time when people were able to be sure that. There has been viruses. Microsoft's download sites. In this report I am going to introduce different malware types and how.
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Introduction This essay contains a description of several famous malicious computer programs (e.g., computer viruses and worms) that caused extensive harm, and it.
Most common viruses nowadays. I am going to spend a little more time with them. I am going to give an example of trojan horses stealing passwords. General information.
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Different malware types. Malware is a general name for all programs that are harmful; viruses, trojan. Viruses. A computer virus is a program, a block of executable code, which attach.
PC user. There are a couple of different types of computer viruses: boot sector. These classifications take into account the. The manner in which each of these types operates has one thing in common. Most viruses are pretty harmless. The user might not even notice the. Sometimes viruses might cause random damage to data files. Even benign. viruses cause damage by occupying disk space and main memory, by using.
CPU processing time. There is also the time and expense wasted in detecting. Trojan. A Trojan Horse is a program that does something else that the user thought. It is mostly done to someone on purpose. The Trojan Horses.
A. Trojan Horse differs from a destructive virus in that it doesn't reproduce. There has been a password trojan out in AOL land (the American On Line). Password. 30 and Pasword.
According to an administrator of AOL, the Trojan steals passwords and. E- mail to the hackers fake name and then the hacker has your account. A worm is a program which spreads usually over network connections. Unlike. a virus which attach itself to a host program, worms always need a host. In practice, worms are not normally associated with. They are mostly found in multi- user systems. Unix environments.
A classic example of a worm is Robert Morrisis. Internet- worm 1. Picture 1 An example of a worm. Macro virus. Macro viruses spread from applications which use macros. The macro viruses. Word 6, Word. Basic. Excel. However, many applications, not all of them Windows applications.
A CAP macro virus, now widespread, infects macros attached to Word 6. Windows, Word 6. 0. Macintosh, Word 6.
Windows NT, and Word. Windows 9. 5 documents. What makes such a virus possible is that the macros are created by Word. BASIC. and even allows DOS commands to be run. Word. BASIC in a program language. Word to macros. A virus, named "Concept," has no destructive payload; it merely spreads. Concept copies itself.
Since then, however, other macro viruses have been discovered. Microsoft suggests opening files without macros to prevent macro viruses. This does NOT work for all macro viruses. Why are macro viruses so successful? Today people share so much data. Internet to get programs and documents.
Macros. are also very easy to write. The problem is also that Word for Windows.
Picture 2 New macro virus by corruption [1. Corruption's also creates "remnant" macros which are not infectious. Known macro virus can get.
Picture 3 Macro virus growth, July 1. May 1. 99. 7 [1. 2]. There have been viruses since 1. Now about. 1. 5 percent of virus.
There are about 2. DOS viruses, but the problem is that macro viruses spreads so fast. New. macro viruses are created in the work- place, on a daily basis, on typical. New macro virus creation is due. Traditional anti- virus programs. Almost all virus detected in the Helsinki University of Technology have.
Tapio Keihänen, the virus specialist. Before macro viruses it was more easy to detect and repair virus infections. But now when there are new macro viruses, it.
Virus sources. Viruses don not just appear, there is always somebody that has made it. Viruses are written everywhere in the world. Now when the information flow in the net and Internet grows, it does not. Most of the writers are young men. There are also few university students.
One thing is common to these writers, all of them are men, women. Women are either smarter or they. Why do people write and spread viruses? It is difficult to know why people write them. Everyone has their own reasons. Some general reasons are to experiment how to write viruses or to test.
Some people just like to see how the virus spreads. World. The following is a list from news group. How viruses act. Viruses main mission is to spread out and then get active. Some viruses. just spread out and never activate. Viruses when they spread out, they. Viruses mission is to hop from program to other and this should happen. Usually viruses join to the host program in some.
They even write over part of the host program. A computer is infected with a boot sector virus if it is booted from. Boot sector infections cannot normally spread. These viruses spread normally via floppy disks which. PC by salesmen or engineers.
A file virus infects other files, when the program to which it is attached. They may be spread from the same sources as boot sector viruses. Internet FTP sites and newsgroups.
Trojan. horses spread just like file viruses. A multipartite virus infects boot sectors and files. Often, an infected. How viruses. We are always afraid that viruses do something harmful to files when they. Some viruses just spread. Might play. a part of melody or play music in the background, show a picture or animated.
As an example, in one unnamed company: over a long period of time, the. So backup copies were taken. And after they noticed that something was wrong. That kind of event.
There is also talk that viruses have done something to hardware like. Viruses can not do any harm to hardware but they. BIOS so that computer does not. Usually you can start the computer from a boot diskette. PC viruses. Viruses are mostly written for PC- computers and DOS environment.
Even though. viruses are made for DOS environment, they are working also in Windows. Windows. 95, Windows NT and OS/2 operating systems. Some viruses like boot.
Macintosh viruses. Macintosh viruses are not as a big problem as PC viruses are. There are. not so many viruses in Macintosh operating system. Macintosh viruses has. How many Mac viruses there are?
I found out that there are about 2- 3. Mac- specific viruses. There are virtually no macro viruses which have a. Mac- specific payload, but all macro viruses can infect on Macs and other.
Word 6. x of better. Other platforms. Viruses can be found from in almost any kind of computer, such as HP calculators. HP 4. 8- calculators and old computers like Commodore. Unix computers too. In general, there are virtually no non- experimental UNIX viruses. There. have been a few Worm incidents, most notably the Morris Worm.
Internet. There are products which scan some Unix systems for PC viruses. Any. machine used as a file server (Novell, Unix etc.) can be scanned for PC. DOS scanner if it can be mounted as a logical drive on a PC. PC- NFS. Intel- based PCs running Unix e. Linux, etc. can also be infected by. DOS boot- sector virus if booted from an infected disk. The same goes. for other PC- hosted operating systems such as Net.
Ware. While viruses are not a major risk on Unix platforms, integrity checkers. How to deal with viruses.
What are the signs of viruses. Almost anything odd a computer may do, can blamed on a computer "virus,". Many operating. systems and programs also do strange things, therefore there is no reason. In most cases, when an anti- virus program.
A computer virus can cause unusual screen displays, or messages - but. A virus may slow the operation of the computer. Even longer disk activity. A virus may cause a drive. One usually reliable indicator of a virus infection is a change in the.
Directory listing. But some. RAM. Another common indication of a virus infection is a change to the reassignment. Unaccounted use of memory or a reduction in. In short, observing "something funny" and blaming it on a computer virus. OK" is equally inadvisable. First thing what you should do when you find virus is count to ten and. You should keep notes on what you do and write down what your.
If you are not sure what to. In some cases. it is not good to start you computer from hard disk, because the virus. Second,make sure that you should get sure that it is virus and what. It is important to know what kind of virus we are dealing. Companies that make anti- virus programs knows what different viruses. When you start you computer you should do it from a clean (non- infected).
The boot diskette. It is good to take a backup of the file that was infected. Virus program. could do some damage to the file and that is why it is good to have a backup. It is good to let you administrator to know about the virus, so viruses. In TKK PC classes are protected by anti- virus. How to protect from viruses. How to. provide against viruses.
Best way to protect yourself is to prepare your computer against viruses. One way to protect you computer is to use updated anti- virus. When you get an email attachment, you should first check the attachment.
As an example in one unnamed Finnish company all information was mailed. There was this one Word document that was mailed. That email attachment was infected by a macro virus. Everyone. got the infected attachment and those who opened that attachment by Word. CAP- macro virus. After all there were a few thousand infections.
It took lots of time and money to clear that virus. One can protect the computer against boot sector viruses by setting. BIOS to start from a hard disk rather than from a floppy disk.
Write protection is a good way to prohibit against viruses.