Computer Security: Antivirus Softwares

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Introduction
Computers are becoming more and more important machine and the uses of computer are becoming variety in our life. The reason for using of computer on different purpose, people are looking for computer specifications which they need. To satisfy people’s needs, the computers are developing fast, however as the growth of use of computer, computer is not the only one developing the internet is developing rapidly. The internet is essential in our life now. Over billions of people around world use internet to communicate with each other or get information they need faster without any limitation of time and places. This makes the quality of human’s life convenience also it makes network and internet improved fast. However, the development of internet brings disadvantages too, typically the computer viruses as known as malicious program. The computer viruses are spreading fast through the internet, these viruses are now major threats to contemporary information society. the viruses can corrupt the computer data, stealing private information or even control your computer. To protect from the viruses, the antivirus software was invented and is developing by many companies lately. The antivirus software is the program that have some unique methods to detect and remove malicious program

Computer viruses
There are hundreds of thousands of viruses in the world and they usually designed for different purpose or objectives. Most of the computer viruses written in the early and mid-1980s were limited to self-reproduction and had no specific damage routine built into the code, but after more and more programmer acquainted with virus programming, they made viruses that can modify the data or even destroy them on infected computer. A co...

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...mputers and various features to help extra protections. But most of them use same basic detecting methods such as real-time protection, signature-based on detection, heuristics detection and rootkit detection. In antivirus industries, the most significant job is to classify the known viruses based on their activities, even one single malicious programs have several malicious activities and propagation routine.

References http://www.avast.com/en-nz/compare-antivirus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus history of viruses http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/threats/subsubsection3_3_1_1.html Heuristic virus http://www.pctools.com/security-news/heuristic-virus-definition/ Rootkit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit Zenny zelster http://blog.zeltser.com/post/1256199682/what-is-cloud-anti-virus Federick B, Cohen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Cohen

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