...the basic concept of virus and provides an insight of the history of virus. The report also analyses the spread of viruses and defines certain measures that computer users may take into account to avoid viruses. Overall ,it was learnt from the report that it is important to keep us updated about computer viruses to be able to successfully safeguard us from computer virus attacks Introduction to Computer Virus: Viruses are mischievous programs, the purpose of which is to disrupt the sensible use of computers. It is a type of a mal-ware and do little more than display a message( Usually insulting!!!) on the screen , but some are designed to act after a certain period of time and do such things as make the letters start to drop off the screen or even erase the entire contents of your hard disk. As their name suggests, viruses are able to spread by infecting other disks and they do this by copying themselves onto other disks which are being used by the computer. Viruses are little programs or scripts that can create files, move files, erase files, consume your computer's memory, and cause your computer not to function correctly or to crash completely. Some viruses can duplicate themselves, attach themselves to programs, and travel across networks. They can self-modify or change over time as they copy themselves. Viruses only spread across multiple computers if an uninfected computer is connected to a network, or if the computer gets connected to infected...
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...2012 Computer Virus: Do you own a laptop or a desktop computer? Have you ever experienced different weird action from it? Have you ever started writing a document, and it looks different, some chapters might be missing or something else abnormal has happened. For instance getting slow or when you turn the computer on, it says that all the data has been erased. NOOOO!! The first thing you do in situations like this is panic. You might think all that hard work you’ve done is all down the drain. That could be true, but in most cases viruses have not done any harm jet, but when some people try to get rid of viruses they delete files or they might even format the whole hard disk. Doing such isn’t the best thing to do when you think you have a virus infection. A good analogy to best explain what viruses are like is when people gets sick and you don’t know what’s wrong what do they do? They go to see a doctor to find out what’s wrong with them. It’s the same way with viruses, if you don’t know what to do you call someone who knows about viruses and get professional help. It is concluded that computer viruses is an important research area with potential applications to other fields, that current systems offer little or no protection from viral attack. (Fred). A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer. The term "virus" is also used to refer to other types of malicious software, including: adware and spyware programs. A virus can spread...
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...Computer Virus Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, I’m glad to bring my presentation for everyone. Before the start, I want to ask a question, I think most people like searching internet, someone like play computer games, someone like shopping, someone do other things. Whether you have the experience of account theft, information loss, and other internet security problems. So, today my topic relate these problems, computer virus. What is computer virus? CV is a computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another, and it cause the damage of computer function or destruction of data. Does anybody who knows the first computer virus in the world? Generally believed that as early as 1981, Apple gave birth to the first computer virus. In 1986 a personal computer virus, comes from a pair of Pakistan's brothers, Buster and Amjad for the purpose of preventing piracy written in C-the BRAIN virus. It is estimated that there are about 2 million mature hackers in the world, and over ten thousand new virus every day, the virus caused the loss of $ 100 billion annually. (1) Computer virus is a new derived in the form of computer crime A computer virus is a high-tech crime, transient, dynamic and random. Difficult to evidence, the risk of small damage, so stimulating crime awareness and crime activities. The virus does not come from the unexpected reason, most virus can be found in the author and origin information, from the statistical analysis of a large...
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...In this assignment, I will be addressing a few topics about computer virus . I will explain the difficulty of creating a computer virus and its frequency and also explaining the differences between a virus and a worm, along with their threat level. According to Microsoft, computer viruses are small software programs that are designed to spread from one computer to another and to interfere with computer operation (Microsoft, 2013). Computer viruses are difficult to create because you have to know the proper coding and determine what you are trying to attack. Many computer programmers or hackers have coding set up online as a start up, but majority of them don’t function correctly. There is constantly many people trying to hack into computers on a daily. Some are fortunate to succeed and some are not. A virus consists of self-propagating program codes that’s triggered by a specific time or event (Bidgoli, 2012). A virus attaches itself to a program or file enabling it to spread from one computer to another, leaving infections as it travels. Viruses can be transmitted through an email attachment or through a network. A computer virus severity varies. It can be mild like a prank, displaying images on a user’s screen or while others can damage your hardware, software or files. According to Cisco, all viruses are attached to an executable file, which means the virus may exist on a system but will not be able to active until a user runs or opens the malicious host file or...
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...Case study This case study is about the computer virus hunter’s at Symantec Corporation. Symantec Corporation deals with the antivirus software. The product provides protection against harmful contents for the computer. Q 1. Keeping professional excited about the work that is routine and standardized and chaotic is major challenge for Vincent Weafer. How could he use Technical, Human and conceptual skills to maintain an environment that encourage innovation and professionalism among the virus hunters? 1. Technical Skills: a. He provides security storage and system management solution. b. The work never stopped to maintain efficiency. c. When Santa Monica’s team finished, then Tokyo took over, this handed over to Japanese then to Dublin and back to Santa Monica. 2. Human skills: a. Coaching and monitoring the works. b. Networking outside the organization. c. Working in a team to solve the problem. 3. Conceptual skills: a. Using information to solve business problem. b. Discover the problem and finding solutions. Q 2. What management role would Vincent be playing as he (a) had weekly security briefing conference calls with coworkers around the globe, (b) assessed the feasibility of adding a new network security consulting services, and (c) kept employees focused on the company commitment’s to customers? (a) According to the study by Henry Mintzberg managers have different but highly interconnected roles. According to this we can say that Vincent...
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...is a computer virus? Computer viruses are small software programs that are designed to spread from one computer to another and to interfere with computer operation. What do computer viruses do? Through the course of using the Internet and your computer, you may have come in to contact with computer viruses. Many computer viruses are stopped before they can start, but there is still an ever growing concern as to what do computer viruses do and the list of common computer virus symptoms. A computer virus might corrupt or delete data on your computer, use your email program to spread itself to other computers, or even erase everything on your hard disk. Computer viruses are often spread by attachments in email messages or instant messaging messages. That is why it is essential that you never open email attachments unless you know who it's from and you are expecting it. Viruses can be disguised as attachments of funny images, greeting cards, or audio and video files. Computer viruses also spread through downloads on the Internet. They can be hidden in illicit software or other files or programs you might download. To help avoid computer viruses it's essential that you keep your computer current with the latest updates and antivirus tools, stay informed about recent threats, run your computer as a standard user (not as administrator), and that you follow a few basic rules when you surf the Internet, download files, and open attachments. Once a virus is on your computer, its...
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...Skip to main content Open Problems in Computer Virus Research Steve R. White IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY USA Presented at Virus Bulletin Conference, Munich, Germany, October 1998 Abstract Over a decade of work on the computer virus problem has resulted in a number of useful scientific and technological achievements. The study of biological epidemiology has been extended to help us understand when and why computer viruses spread. Techniques have been developed to help us estimate the safety and effectiveness of anti-virus technology before it is deployed. Technology for dealing with known viruses has been very successful, and is being extended to deal with previously unknown viruses automatically. Yet there are still important research problems, the solution to any of which significantly improve our ability to deal with the virus problems of the near future. The goal of this paper is to encourage clever people to work on these problems. To this end, we examine several open research problems in the area of protection from computer viruses. For each problem, we review the work that has been done to date, and suggest possible approaches. There is clearly enough work, even in the near term, to keep researchers busy for quite a while. There is every reason to believe that, as software technology evolves over the next century or so, there will plenty of important and interesting new problems that must be solved in this field. Introduction ...
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...A computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself[1] and spread from one computer to another. The term "virus" is also commonly, but erroneously, used to refer to other types of malware, including but not limited to adware and spyware programs that do not have a reproductive ability. Malware includes computer viruses, computer worms, Trojan horses, most rootkits, spyware, dishonest adware and other malicious or unwanted software, including true viruses. Viruses are sometimes confused with worms and Trojan horses, which are technically different. A worm can exploit security vulnerabilities to spread itself automatically to other computers through networks, while a Trojan horse is a program that appears harmless but hides malicious functions. Worms and Trojan horses, like viruses, may harm a computer system's data or performance. Some viruses and other malware have symptoms noticeable to the computer user, but many are surreptitious or simply do nothing to call attention to themselves. Some viruses do nothing beyond reproducing themselves. An example of a virus which is not a malware, but is putatively benevolent, is Fred Cohen's theoretical compression virus.[2] However, antivirus professionals do not accept the concept of benevolent viruses, as any desired function can be implemented without involving a virus (automatic compression, for instance, is available under the Windows operating system at the choice of the user). Any virus will by definition make...
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...Computer Virus A computer virus is a malicious piece of executable code that propagates typically by attaching itself to a host document that will generally be an executable file. ✓ Typical hosts for computer viruses are: – Executable files (such as the ‘.exe’ files in Windows machines) that may be sent around as email attachments – Boot sectors of disk partitions – Script files for system administration (such as the batch files in Windows machines, shell script files in Unix, etc.) – Documents that are allowed to contain macros (such as Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Access database files, etc.) ✓ Any operating system that allows third-party programs to run can support viruses. ✓ Because of the way permissions work in Unix/Linux systems, it is more difficult for a virus to wreak havoc in such machines. Let’s say that a virus embedded itself into one of your script files. The virus code will execute only with the permissions that are assigned to you. For example, if you do not have the permission to read or modify a certain system file, the virus code will, in general, be constrained by the same restriction. ✓ At the least, a virus will duplicate itself when it attaches itself to another host document, that is, to another executable file. But the important thing to note is that this copy does not have to be an exact replica of itself. In order to make more difficult the detection by pattern matching, the virus may alter itself...
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...A computer virus is a program that is designed to damage your computer, programs, and files. Like a virus in a living thing, a computer virus can spread if it is not removed. Some viruses are more dangerous than others. One of the most common places for a computer virus to appear is on a file found on the Internet or attached to an E-mail. Computer viruses didn’t really exist until the mid 1980s. The first computer viruses were created in university labs to demonstrate how much of a threat the vicious code could be. There are many kind of viruses that exist today. Some of the most common of Computer Viruses are: File Viruses, Boot Sector/Partition Viruses, Multi-Partite Viruses, Trojan Horses, File Overwriters, Polymorphic viruses, and Stealth Viruses. A File Virus is the most common kind of virus. These kinds of viruses usually infect .EXE and COM files, which are the main component of a program or application. A file virus can insert its own code into part of the file, so that when the infected program file is run, the virus is executed first. Most file viruses are memory resident. Because of this, they can easily attach themselves to other programs that are being run and start to infect that file. A simple virus will overwrite and destroy a host file, immediately letting the user know that there is a problem because the software will not run. Because these viruses are immediately sensed by the computer, they have a less chance to spread. More complex written viruses will cause...
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...THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY BY DEBRA JAMES WIU IT-330 Abstract Once before there was a business profit speed breaker called Macro Virus, and today it is still prevalent to a lesser extent, even though; Microsoft did do something about it, to where it is under control, but; still very much around. (Brightub articles 2011) .explains the well knows macro virus was a stark reminder of its disastrous power. In today’s world of technology computer viruses attack the software of a computer- the operating system usually attacks the software. (Microsoft /TechNet 2011), states the macro virus is known as a written virus in the internal macro language of applications. In some cases macro virus can cause no damage to the data, however; in other cases, macros viruses have been written that can cause damage to your work. This paper explains. What macro viruses are? How they spread. What affect they have? How to avoid a macro virus How to protect your computer What are Macro viruses…..? A macro virus is a computer infraction written in macro language, which is commonly built into word processing applications. (Goggle 2011, pg., 1) In general, Marcos viruses are a series of commands and executions that help automate specific tasks. Regardless of how many they create, they must be executed by a system that is able to interpret stored commands. There are some macro systems that are actually self-contained utilities while others are built into more advanced applications for users...
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...Intercontinental University Abstract Computers are part of almost everyone’s life. They are use in school, offices, and in small as well as in big companies. It has become a store place for their important data and records. Therefore we need to have something to keep the data in the computer save. Away from dangerous viruses that may corrupt or delete data on your computer, and e-mail program to spread the virus to other computers. My research paper is about the best anti-virus program that can protect your system from any virus. Title of Paper People used computer everyday all day it had become a part of one life, in school, business, home, and in our local stores. From the desk top to the lap top now on the cell iPod we are in touch with the world. Paying bills looking for what is new and just playing games the computer is important to us. Well keep in mind that there are some people that would like to close you (your computer) down. So here come the viruses into your computer and how we have a big problem. Not just in your home computer, but around the world this is a global problem. So we are looking for an anti-virus program that can stop the virus and clear up the computer too. There are so many programs that o the market and we trying to see which one was be the best for us. Some anit-virus program only can do some of clearing up and stopping the virus and other are better than other. Computer can catch all kind of virus, worms Trojan horse and other malicious...
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...2013 The world of technology is threatened each day by malicious viruses and worms that can cripple an entire company. I will explain how each virus or worm functions and spreads through computer systems. Boot Sector - is a virus that is spread by floppy disk. The disk is left in the drive with the virus and will spread to the C: drive during the next boot sequence. File – is a virus that corrupts the computers executable files on a network. When the file is opened, the virus overwrites it and causes damage to the infected file. Multipartite – is a virus that uses the boot sector to move quickly, infecting both the boot sector and the executable files at the same time. This makes the virus very dangerous because just by turning on the computer, the virus latches onto the hard disk and broadcasts malicious payloads throughout the program files. Macro – is a virus that affects files that contain macro codes in them that is interpreted by an application. They are commonly spread by electronic emails. Trojan horse – is a program that seems to be functioning normally but has a hidden malicious virus in it, and by accessing the system or computer, can corrupt the authorizations. Email worms – is a worm or virus that is spread through email. They are usually sent as an attachment or spread inside the body of an email. Instant Messaging Worms – or IM Worm, is a self replication malicious code that is spread...
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...Abstract Now that personal computers are pretty much a must have in every household, school, or business cyber-criminals have moved from just being a hacker for fun into an estimated multi-million dollar world of computer crimes. New revenue streams have been realized and viruses in choice Computer crimes encompass unauthorized or illegal activities perpetrated via computer as well as the theft of computers and other technological hardware. As firms of all sizes, industrial orientation, and geographic location increasingly rely on computers to operate, concerns about computer crime have also risen, in part because the practice appears to be thriving despite the concerted efforts of both the law enforcement and business communities to stop it. But computer experts and business consultants alike note that both international corporations and modest family-owned businesses can do a great deal to neutralize computer "viruses" and other manifestations of computer crime. “http://rahimimohammad.blogspot.com/p/law-for-computer-crimesand-economic.html” Many analysts believe, however, that small business owners are less likely to take steps to address the threat of computer crime than are larger firms. Indeed, many small businesses admit that they are passive about the threat because of costs associated with implementing safeguards and the perception that computer "hackers" and other threats are far more likely to pick on bigger companies. But as Tim McCollum flatly stated in Nation's Business...
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...So, your surfin' the net when poof! Your computer screen goes blank and nothing on your keyboard works. You curse several times loudly, while smacking the monitor. Nothing happens, your computer has just crashed due to a virus. And no it's not West Nile, Small Poxs or Polio. Computer viruses have been aroud for many years, since about 1986. Who invented computer viruses? Where were they created? Can you create them? All of these questions will be answered, as well as a short timeline of virus history and highlight of some recent major viruses. First, What is a computer virus? And how do you protect yourself from them? Then, A short timeline of virus' history. And, finally a few recent major viruses. What is a computer virus? A computer virus is a program or piece of software that copies itself to your PC, or attaches itself to a document. For example, when you open an infected document it replicates and attaches to other files on your hard drive. The process goes unnoticed until it is too late and your computer crashes. There are 3 types of computer viruses; E-Mail Viruses, Worms, and Trojan Horses. E-Mail Viruses- Many Hackers use E-Mail Viruses to reek havock on the E-World. (According to WWW.HACKERS.COM-Hackers are evil people who have nothing better to do with their vast knowledge of computers than destroy them.) An E- Mail Viruse is sent from person to person via E-Mail. Once the infected E-Mail is opened it replicates by sending...
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