A Look Into The Computer Virus

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A Look Into The Computer Virus

A Look Into The Computer Virus

     by, Michael Ross
     Engineering 201.02
     January 22, 1997

Most of us swap disks with friends and browse the Net looking for downloads.
Rarely do we ever consider that we are also exchanging files with anyone and
everyone who has ever handled them in the past. If that sounds like a warning
about social diseases, it might as well be.
Computer viruses are every bit as insidious and destructive, and come in a vast
variety of strains. A computer virus tears up your hard drive and brings down
your network.  However, computer viruses are almost always curable diagnosed,
and cures for new strains are usually just a matter of days, not months or years,
away.

Virus, a program that "infects" computer files (usually other executable
programs) by inserting in those files' copies of itself. This is usually done in
such a manner that the copies will be executed when the file is loaded into
memory, allowing them to infect still other files, and so on. Viruses often have
damaging side effects, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. (Microsoft
Encarta 1996)

Most viruses are created out of curiosity. Viruses have always been viewed as a
well written, creative product of software engineering. I admit there are many
out there who create them out of malice, but far more people are just meeting a
challenge in software design. The people who make anti-virus software have much
more to benefit from the creation of new virii. This is not a slam, just an
observation.  A common type of virus would be a Trojan Horse, or a destructive
program disguised as a game, a utility, or an application. When run, a Trojan
Horse does something devious to the computer system while appearing to do
something useful (Microsoft Encarta, 1996).  A Worm is also a popular type of
virus.  A worm is a program that spreads itself across computers, usually by
spawning copies of itself in each computer's memory. A worm might duplicate
itself in one computer so often that it causes the computer to crash. Sometimes
written in separate "segments," a worm is introduced secretly into a host system
either for "fun" or with intent to damage or destro...

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