History and Types of Computer Viruses
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VIRUS They can be resident in memory or not.
They can be stealthy: Stealth viruses
the AT&T Bell laboratories. It consisted of a
a kind of battle between codes to achieve
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scatter faster. the maximum memory reproducing the virus.
Viruses can bring other viruses: A virus In 1970, the Creeper emerged on ARPANET that
It was based on the message 'I AM A CREEPER...
Definition
it can carry another virus by making it much
"CATCH ME IF YOU CAN." The same year it was released.
more lethal
Reaper that consisted of searching if it was there
They can make the system never show I would eliminate the creeper.
signs of infection The term virus as such appears in 1984.
A computer virus is a program that is
automatically copies and aims to They can remain on the computer even if when the American electrical engineer
alter the normal functioning of the the hard drive is formatted: Fred Cohen used the term to designate a
computer, without permission or knowledge computer program that replicated itself
How
of the user. Although it is popularly included in the same.
"malware" within viruses, in the sense
strictly speaking, viruses are programs
that replicate and execute by themselves.
Who invented them?
they act? What is it for
did they invent?
Despite all the background, the true
the origin of viruses is very confusing and neither
the end is really known. The first step in the
the origin of viruses is in John Von Neumann
when he developed his automata theory
Characteristics complicated.
ticas A virus can reach our computer from
various ways: either through a disk, or
well through the network (mainly the Internet).
Viruses can infect multiple files of
the infected computer (and the network to which
How did they arise?
belongs): Because some viruses reside It is not known exactly what the first virus was.
in memory, in the history of computers, although yes it
Do you know which was possibly the first in a
They can be polymorphic: Some viruses have computer with operating system.
the ability to modify its code, which
it means that a virus can have multiple In 1949, the first indication about the
similar variants, making them difficult to definition of virus when John Von Neumann
detect. exposed his "Theory and Organization of a"
complicated automaton.
you accept their legal terms you install
Adware.
Hoaxes or false virusesTheir messages
with false information.
Macro virusA macro is a
sequence of keyboard commands and
mice assigned to a single key,
symbol or command.
Boot sector virus
sector):They reside in the first clues
Types of from the hard drive or from the floppy disks.
-ParasitesPosters are joined
executables in such a way that the virus does
Virus execute before it starts to
execute the program itself.
YEAR OF THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION AND
IMPUNITY
Multiplayer gamesThese viruses combine
TrojansThey tend to be the most the capabilities of parasites and of CEGNE
dangerous, since there are not many initial boot sector virus.
Belen
ways to eliminate them. What they do Infect executable files and sectors
is to send personal information to the of initial start.
the person who sent it, they are also
capable of displaying screens with Companions: The virus
”
words. companions do not modify the
files, but they create a new one
Jokes or virus jokeIt's a virus that program with the same name,
they create prank messages in the deceiving the operating system to
pantalla, siempre con elfin de that I can run it
to bother
Adware Advertising-Supported
softwaresupportedwith
propaganda). These are programs
which show advertising and usually come
with a Shareware program and when
Computer virus
Student : ALESSANDRO SILUPU NAVARRO
Course : COMPUTATION
Degree : FIFTH
Section : PRIMARY
2019