The viruses as they can be
All PC viruses can be separated into several groups by actions they perform.
There are some harmless viruses that multiply and do whatever never revealing themselves. The only secondary effect of them is a decrease of free space on hard drive but usually they don’t take lots of it.
The next stage [...]
The bad programs
Not only the viruses mess with your PC and software as at least 3 more types of harmful programs are detected: worms, Trojans and logical bombs. Though, there’s no precise designation as Trojans may contain viruses and viruses – logical bombs.
The Trojan programs
The Greeks have a myth of the city of Troy conquest: [...]
How do the PC viruses work?
So, what is PC virus? Imagine some clerk and his work place with a table and phone and copier with some appliances on it. Some cabinet with files and documents is standing nearby. All files contain certain instructions a clerk has to follow. So, every day our clerk takes out [...]
The viruses’ appearance chronology
Every year brings up new viruses so let’s have an overview of modern viruses’ history. The first macrovirus infecting MS Word documents appeared in 1995. The next year first Win32 viruses designed for Windows 95 appeared. In 1997 the viruses started using E-mails for distribution and those days users saw the viruses [...]
No matter who you speak to, everyone has either had a personal pc virus or understands of someone who has gone with the agony of trying to get rid from the problem. Computer viruses are a very hot topic that seem to affect everybody who owns a personal computer program, whether at perform or in [...]
