Truth and Lies About the Computer Virus
Walk into any computer store today and there will be at least twenty or thirty computer virus programs. From the looks of it computer viruses have gotten out of hand and so has the business of stopping it. The computer user must cut through the media hype of apocoliptic viruses and shareware programs and discover the real facts.
Before we even start the journey of exploring the computer virus we must first eliminate all the "fluff." The computer user needs to understand how information about viruses reaches the public. Someone creates the virus and then infects at least one computer. The virus crashes or ruins the infected computer. A anti-virus company obtains a copy of the virus and studies it. The anti-virus company makes an "unbiased" decision about the virus and then disclose their findings to the public. The problem with the current system is that there are no checks and balances. If the anti-virus company wants to make viruses seem worse all they have to do is distort the truth. There is no organization that certifies wheather or not a virus is real. Even more potentially harmful is that the anti-virus companies could write viruses in order to sell their programs. Software companies have and do distort the truth about viruses. "Antivirus firms tend to count even the most insignificant variations of viruses for advertising purposes. When the Marijuana virus first appeared, for example, it contained the word "legalise," but a miscreant later modified it to read "legalize." Any program which detects the original virus can detect the version with one letter changed -- but antivirus companies often count them as "two" viruses. These obscure differentiations quickly add up." http://www.kumite.com/myths/myth005.htm Incidentally the Marijuana virus is also called the "Stoned" virus there by making it yet another on the list of viruses that companies protect your computer against.
I went to the McAfee Anti-virus Web site looking for information on the
Marijuana virus but was unable to obtain that information. I was however able to get a copy of the top ten viruses of their site. On specific virus called
Junkie: "Junkie is a multi-partite, memory resident, encrypting virus. Junkie specifically targets .COM files, the DOS boot sector on floppy diskettes and the
Master Boot Record (MBR). When initial infection is in the form of a file infecting virus, Junkie infects the MBR or floppy boot sector, disables VSafe
(an anti-virus terminate-and-stay-resident program (TSR), which is included with
MS-DOS 6.X) and loads itself at Side 0, Cylinder 0, Sectors 4 and 5. The virus does not become memory resident, or infect files at this time.
The first finding was a medium priority that was a cryptcat.exe file this program can potentially be used to remote access the program. The second finding was a Psh.exe file that was a very high priority it was a Trojan Horse Dropper named Generic4.BVMA, this really do some damage to the system by crashing it or altering it. Thirdly, I found a medium priority that was a astlog.exe file that is develop by NirSoft, the file can be a harmful program Logger.IAC that is an adware software and attackers can misuse this to get your passwords on your system. The fourth malware I found on the scan was a high priority from the Isadump2...
...virus that spreads easily is a combination that nobody wants. Everyone should care about this message in the book, because they could possibly come in contact with this virus one day.
Bob is at the skate park, showing off his skills as a skateboarder. With one wrong move, he fell off of his skateboard, and his knee scrapped on the concrete, causing a big gash on his knee. A virus enters in the knee, and it has a mission. Its mission is to infect every organ in Bob's body.
Nowadays, technology makes easier for scientists to discover new viruses and find cures for them. One these viruses, “bird flu” known as H5N1 recreated by the Dutch scientist Ron Fouchier. Even though he had no ill intention to create such strain, it has a potential to wipe most humanity off from the face of the world as well as saving the humanity from much worse viruses. The discovery of this virus caused a big controversy in the scientific world. Some scientists think that publication of this virus indeed benefits society while some say that not publishing this might prevent society from horrible incidents.
suffer alone. The purpose of this paper is to point out some of the myths
Throughout the course, we have learned all aspects of technology. The key-note speaker, Neil Postman, at the IBM- sponsored meeting has only stated his opinion about the growing technology. More importantly, the fact that he thought of technology in that way back in 1990s in to be clearly noted. As this is also about my opinion, I completely agree with Neil Postman for a several reasons. It’s true that no one ever speaks of the disadvantages of computer technology, and when it comes down to what the computer technology takes away from us all are jobs, the act of being social and crimes. All in all, computer technology seems to be taking down most if not all of the human population on Earth and we’ll soon realize it’s too late to do anything
At the dawn of the 18th century, the Terrore virus emerged. Patient Zero, a boy named William Bernard, bit 3 members of his family. Within 3 days, thousands of people ravaged local headlines as “zombies” until 1768, when many of them hibernated for centuries. Many called it a legend, but no one knew the horror that would emerge.
them and how the virus itself adapts to meet the ever changing conditions of a
In today’s days malware is designated as a software which aims to disturb a computer with the consent or permission of the owner. This term “Malware” is used by computer professionals to describe a varied forms of destructive, annoying and intrusive software code. This word “Malware” is used to indicate all types of malware which include a true set of viruses.
“A digital world we became”. These days individuals turned to use computer systems in everything in their lives. They even use them in manufacturer instead of employees. I did not say that technological innovation is not essential for us but sometimes the technological innovation disregards our role in life. Technological innovation is very essential to any lifestyle to flourish. Technology contains cell mobile phones, laptops, machines, Ipads and many other factors. Not also they include all the excellent stuff but any great factor comes out with a drawback. Technological innovation has some drawbacks, and the most essential one of them that we will mainly talk about is the malware.
Virus is one of the most common malware. Unlike spyware, virus is largely designed to harm useful programs or wreck down an entire operating system. There are many ways through which virus may enter a computer. The most common way is via email attachments. A...
I want to say one more thing we should control the internet or any technology not to let it control us.
aspect of our lives, we are faced with computers. They are in our classrooms, cars, and even used
Consider the impact of the new technology on both computer professionals and computer users, including relevant ethical, legal or social issues.
With this information, of which is all theoretically possible, we now have a zombie that passes the principles of a zombie.The medical science involved has now proven that zombies are possible.Have fun and do not create this unless you want to be responsible for the mass genocide of the human race.