9. Viruses can
• slow down your computer
• corrupt your system files
• make some programs faulty or corrupt
• damage your boot sector
• Tie up Internet traffic
• turn your computer into a slave
• steal important information from your computer
• change the power ratings and blast your computer
• worst case
can make your computer unusable
10. Viruses behave in different ways
• Hide in the system
• Replace files
• Replicate files
• Delete files
• Run programs
• Send files and info
• Deny access
• Reboot computers
• Clog your memory
16. OVERWRITE VIRUS
deletes information contained in the files that it infects and
sometimes reboot the system
EX.
Way
Trj.Reboot
Trivial.88.D
DAMAGE: files may be partially or totally
useless
17. DIRECTORY VIRUS (CLUSTER)
changing the path that indicates the location of a file and renaming all
executable to non-executable extensions. When you run the program, you first
run the virus
EX. Dir-2 virus (creeping death)
DAMAGE: Once infected, it becomes impossible to locate the original files.
18. FAT virus
Damaged the part of a disk used to store all the information about the location of
files, available space, unusable space, etc.
FILE ALLOCATION TABLE
Ex. Link Virus
Damage:
cause serious damage to computer
reformat needed.
19. WEB scripting Virus
originated from websites used for social networking.
Attached a link that could lead to other harmful sites.
Symptoms
Yahoo and Google search will be re-directed
Homepage of web browser, desktop background often
get changed automatically
Damage: slow down the performance of the machine
20. Trojans
• Disguise as a useful program
• steal end-user information (credit card info, banks etc.)
• perform destructive harm on the target computer
• download additional computer malware
Took its name From the Greek myth ‘Trojan Horse’
ex. Chernobyl virus 1998
Damage: perform destructive features on the
computer.
21. Worms
replicates itself in order to spread to other computers
sends out hundreds or thousands of copies
creating a huge devastating effect
Ex. Morris worm – worth damaged between $10,000,000 and $100,000,000
ILOVEYOU virus - Onel A. de Guzman, $5.5 billion to $8.7 billion in damages. 10% of all Internet-
connected computers were hit.
Damage
consumes too much system memory(or network
bandwidth), causing Web servers, network servers and individual
computers to stop responding
22. Rootkit
allow viruses and malware to “hide in plain sight” by disguising as necessary files that
your antivirus software will overlook
Worst case:
control your computer and turn it into ‘Zombie’
“secretly compromised by hacking tools which allow a third party to control the computer and its resources
remotely”
32. Viruses can
• slow down your computer
• corrupt your system files
• make some programs faulty or corrupt
• damage your boot sector
• Tie up Internet traffic
• turn your computer into a slave
• steal important information from your computer
• change the power ratings and blast your computer
• worst case
can make your computer unusable