A COMPUTER VIRUS A case study presented to Dr.Pedro D. Abanador In partial fulfilment of the requirements in the subject RES323- Research Methodologies Leading to the degree Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Presented by: Estimada‚ Ronald B. BSIT-3A2 February 4‚ 2014 CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction A computer virus is a small software program that spreads from one computer to another
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Computer Virus Information What is a computer virus? Think of a biological virus – the kind that makes you sick. It’s persistently nasty‚ keeps you from functioning normally and often requires something powerful to get rid of it. A computer virus is very similar. Designed to relentlessly replicate‚ computer viruses infect your programs and files‚ alter the way your computer operates or stop it from working altogether. It’s estimated that the Conficker virus infected more than 10 million computers
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A. Is a Virus Alive? 1. Viruses are segments of nucleic acids contained in a protein coat. 2. Pathogens are agents that cause disease. 3. Viruses do not grow‚ do not have homeostasis‚ and do not metabolize‚ therefore scientists don’t consider them to be living. 4. Discovery of Viruses i. Scientists filtered bacteria from the sap of infected plants‚ and were surprised to find that the filtered sap could still cause uninfected plants to become infected. ii. In 1935‚ Wendell Stanley of the Rockefeller
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Although computer viruses and biological viruses are not related in any way‚ they are very similar in many aspects. Both viruses need a host to replicate for a means of survival. Similarly‚ both enter their hosts passively. Biological hosts are infected by breathing‚ ingestion‚ or direct contact while infected software‚ email attachments and transfers infect the cyber host. Another notable similarity is the fact that both computer and biological viruses need the proper host as well as software and
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Topic : The influence of computer viruses Nowadays ‚ most of our activities need computers .They are an excellent tool to help us solve quickly and effectively almost problems in our life. However‚ the computers are also very sensitive and may work wrongly if they are attacked by computer viruses . In fact ‚ the computer viruses may cause a lot of bad effects for users in which loosing data in computers‚ interupting business communication and stolen personal informations on the internet are
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LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY Research paper for the Course of English Computer viruses of today Student: Submission date: Instructor: The Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics The English Department Moscow 2010 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 1 Essence of computer viruses 4 2 TYPES OF VIRUSES. 6 3 Antivirus software 11 CONCLUSION 13 References 14 Introduction
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on the same computer. A computer virus is an executable program. Depend on the nature of a virus‚ it may cause damage of your hard disk contents‚ and/or interfere normal operation of your computer. By definition‚ a virus program is able to replicate itself. This means that the virus multiplies on a computer by making copies of itself. This replication is intentional; it is part of the virus program. In most cases‚ if a file that contains virus is executed or copied onto another computer‚ then that
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Viruses In computer technology‚ viruses are vicious software programs‚ a form of malware. Viruses exist on local disk drives and spread from one computer to another through the sharing of the infected files. Regular methods for spreading viruses include floppy disks‚ FTP file transfers‚ and copying files between shared network drives. Once installed on a computer‚ a virus may change or remove application and system files. Some viruses can leave a computer inoperable; others just display startling
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Computer Viruses: Past‚ Present And Future In our health-conscious society‚ viruses of any type are an enemy. Computer viruses are especially pernicious. They can and do strike any unprotected computer system‚ with results that range from merely annoying to the disastrous‚ time-consuming and expensive loss of software and data. And with corporations increasingly using computers for enterprise-wide‚ business-critical computing‚ the costs of virus-induced down-time are growing along with the threat
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Howard Mayo NT1230 4/3/12 8 Common Types of Computer Viruses Dictionary.com defines a computer virus as “a segment of self-replicating code planted illegally in a computer program‚ often to damage or shut down a system or network (“Virus‚” 2012).” The term virus has become more generic over the years and has come to represent any type of malware‚ or malicious software. There are many types of malware that can be classified as viruses but it is the intention of this paper to examine 8 of
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