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.......
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