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All About Viruses
DEFINITIONS
A Biological Virus: an entity that attatches itself to a healthy cell and uses the infected cell to infect other cells
a computer virus works in a similar way
it NEEDS to attatch itself to something before it can infect and spread
there has to be a mechanism to run this virus automatically
this is explained below
Malware: MALicious softWARE, including viruses, worms, Trojans, Denial of Service and other such attacks. Sometimes referred to as rogue programs
Denial of service (DoS) attacks: cause thousands of access attempts to a Web site over a very short period of time, overloading the target site and shutting it down.
Identity theft: is the impersonation by a thief of someone with good credit.
Macro viruses: are viruses that spread by binding themselves to software like Word or Excel.
Malware: is malicious software that is designed by people to attack some part of a computer system.
Worm: is a computer virus that spreads itself, not only from file to file, but from computer to computer via e-mail and other Internet traffic.
How A Virus Can Attach / Two Types of Virii
1.) Boot-Sector Virii: infects boot sector executables. affects MBR’s / Partition Tables .
once its loaded in the memory .. it sits and waits
2.) Macros / Macro Virii: A macro is a series of commands and instructions that you group together as a single command to automate a task.
Guide To AntiVirus Software :
I am posting the top 10 with final rank ( acc. to how many virii out of the 76556 it detected ) here:
1. Kaspersky Personal Pro version 4.5.0.58 and ESET 3.0 – 99.09%
2. F-Secure 2004 version 4.71.5 – 98.77%
3. Extendia AVK Pro version 11.0.4 – 98.68%
4. AVK version 14.0.7 – 98.50%
5. Kaspersky Personal version 5.0.149 – 97.88%
6. eScan 2003 Virus Control version 2.6.484.8 – 96.75%
7. McAfee version 8.0.41 – 93.59%
8. Norton version 2004 Professional – 93.38%
9. RAV version 8.6.105 – 93.14%
10. F-Prot version 3.15 – 91.85%
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