CounterMeasures for Virus and Worms attack

VIRUS :: Computer virus are perceived as a threat to both business and personnel

                            Virus is a self replicating program that produces its own code by attaching copies itself into other executable codes

SOME VIRUS NAMES ARE ::

                                                               Melissa Brew & Back orifice

                                                               Melissa, Corner, Tristate

                                                               Slammer, Sobig

                                                               Email-Worm, win32, I love you virus

WHY VIRUS ARE CREATED ::

• Research projects 
•  Pranks 
•  Vandalism 
•  To attack the product of specifies companied 
•  To distribute the political messages 
•  Financial gain 
•  Identity theft 
•  Spyware

WORMS :: Worms are distinguished from virus by the fact that a virus requires some from of the human intervention to infect a computer whereas a worm does not

                                     A worm is a special type of virus that can replicate itself and use memory, but cannot attach itself to other programs

INDICATIONS OF VIRUS ATTACK ::

• Programs take longer to load than normal 
• Computer's hard drive constantly runs out of free space 
• Files have strange names which are not recognizable 
• Resources are used up easily

HARDWARE ATTACKS ::

                     Power Faults    :: Sudden power failure, voltage spikes & cause damage to system

                     System Life     :: System gets worn-out over period of time

                     Typos                      :: Data gets deleted or corrupted or replacement of wrong files

SOFTWARE ATTACKS ::

                                                                                         Intentionally launched malicious programs enable the attacker to use the computer in an unauthorized manner

                     General Categories  :: Virus and Worms

                                                                  Logic bombs

                                                                  Trojans

VRIUS DETECTION METHODS ::

                            Scanning   :: Once a virus has been detected, it is possible to write scanning programs that look for signature string characteristics of the virus

                            Integrity Checking :: Integrity checking products work by reading your entire disk and recording integrity data that acts as a signature for the files and system sectors

                            Interception :: The interception monitors operating system requests that write to disk

ANTI TOOLS - ANTI - VIRUS SOFTWARES ::

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   AVG Antivirus :: Download => AVG antivirus crack + serial key

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NOTE ::  Scan your computer every after 15 day of the month