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Computer Viruses
Newest Review: ... deleting files or formatting a hard disk. They tend to be malicious, but do not infect other files, and as such can easily be removed by deleting the program. Script viruses ============== These are created using programming scripts such as Visual Basic Script (VBS), JavaScript, and HTML. VBS and JavaScript exploit Microsoft’s Windows Script Host when they activate and infect other files. These are normally activated by executing the .vbs or .js file, which often appear as a double file extension, so you may for example receive a file called image.jpg.vbs. HTML viruses, on the other hand, use scripts that are embedded in the HTML cod... more |
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Computer Viruses: A beginners guide to viruses (1298 words)
by crispy - written on 23.01.02 (Very useful, 460 readings)
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Computer viruses are much the same as biological viruses – they attach themselves to hosts and replicate themselves repeatedly, however the hosts take the form of diskettes or files rather than living organisms. Some viruses attach themselves to files and execute themselves when the file is executed, others may just sit in the computer’s RAM and infect other files as the user opens, modifies or creates them. Most viruses do need to be initialised by the user, however this need only be clicking on an icon or previewing an email in an email program. Some will be completely harmless, and just do something like display a message, whereas others can ...
I have a Virus! I need an Apirin (553 words)
by Carlow Lass - written on 28.11.01 (Very useful, 80 readings)
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Having received a Virus yesterday I sure do need an Apirin or two to-day I am one of those people that tells everyone to watch out for Virus's and what do I do? Yep you guessed it! opened an attachment that I though was from a friend The Virus is the Badtrans_B and it went wild on the 24th Nov I think that the reason that the virus has gained so rapidly is that it uses a known vulnerability of Internet Explorer which allows the AUTOMATIC download of an attachment merely by looking at the e-mail. Whilst this virus does not destroy data on your PC or render it useless it places a ‘Trojan Horse’ on it which would enable someone to track ...
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