May 10 Virus
During recent years, computers have become synonymous with viruses and virus show no signs of disappearing in the near future. In the latest news, LiveScience.com reported that “Before the month is even done, April has set a record for the virus e-mails.” In the past, would be comfortable telling the new computer users not to worry about viruses and catching a computer virus is rare. Today, some of which would be the worst advice you could give anyone. As reported in countless news, viruses proliferate and are extremely worrying. This article describes what they are viruses, and then the point where the direction of some rather unique protection and prevention.
In short, a computer virus is a software program designed to destroy or steal data. It attacks computers through the distribution - often unknowingly - through email attachments, downloading software, and even some types of advanced Web scripts. The virus that destroys data are known as Trojans, viruses that exploit their attacks are called bombs, and viruses that duplicate themselves are called worms. Some viruses are a combination of each, but most can be identified according to where it is located in a computer.
A virus from the boot sector of a computer is a boot sector of this virus and repugnant devil does his dirty work when a computer is turned on. A virus that attaches itself (infected) other programs is a file virus and is activated when an infected program begins. File viruses can also be called parasitic virus, however if a virus work both from the boot sector and a program infected, the virus is known as a multipartite virus.
Why are there viruses remains a mystery, however we have private access to the minds behind a programmer virus that explains his motivation behind their destructive inclinations. Apparently, this person had a deep grudge against a popular online service that will remain unnamed. In this hacker’s mind, the online service for not doing quality work in protecting children from online obscenity and in retaliation, he created and distributed a virus to as many libraries file this service as he could. Their intentions were to turn off computers from the online service so users can not be online for several days. In his view, the loss of connection meant the loss of revenue for the online service.
Despite the malicious code that may have generated this person worked for a small percentage of visitors, enough to say, the online service and continues to this day still exists. Despite their motivation or intent, their efforts were invalid.
We are not surprised to know whether other motivations behind the spread of viruses are similar to this person, but that does not justify the damage that viruses. Innocent people become pawns for the evil plans of others who had convinced themselves they are doing the “right” thing.
To protect a computer from a virus, a virus or clean a computer, once infected, the system requires the use of an anti-virus utility. But it can be something else we can do. Maybe we could make an effort to educate people who want to put viruses in the population on how to show dissatisfaction with a service or product that does not involve harm to innocent parties. In doing so, could only reduce the number of news viruses and protect our own investment decisions at the same time.
