TOPIC

COMPUTER VIRUS

PRESENTED BY-
BHRIGURAJ BORDOLOI
MANASHI ADHIKARY
M. ASHOKKUMAR
 INTRODUCTION
• VIRUS IS A SELF DUPLICATING COMPUTER
PROGRAMME
• IT INTERFERES WITH THE COMPUTER
HARDWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEM
• VIRUSES ARE DESIGNED TO DUPLICATE
THEMSELVES
• THEY AVOID DETECTION
• IT MUST BE EXECUTED FOR IT TO FUNCTION
 HOW INFECTIONS OCCUR

• ATTACHES ITSELF TO COMPUTER’S OS, AND

BECOMES ITS PART
• THE CORRUPTED PROGRAMME EXECUTES ITS
OWN INSTRUCTION AS WELL AS THE VIRUS
• UPON EXECUTION THE VIRUS INSTRUCTES
THE HOST PROGRAMME TO COPY ITS VIRAL
CODE AND INFECTS ANY NUMBER OF OTHER
PROGRAMMES
• INFECTION CAN THEN TRANSFER ITSELF TO
FILES AND CODE ON TO OTHER COMPUTERS
THROUGH STORAGE DEVICES
• THEY MULTIPLY UNTIL THEY DESTROY DATA
OR RENDER OTHER PROGRAMME CODES
MEANINGLESS
• VIRUSES MAY DO NO HARM OR MAY EVEN
WREAK HAVOC ON THE COMPUTER,
CAUSING IT TO CRASH AND DESTROY
VALUABLE DATA
 TYPES OF VIRUSES
1. PARASITIC OR FILE VIRUS
2. BOOTSTRAP SECTOR
3. MULTI-PARTITE
4. MACRO VIRUS
5. SCRIPT VIRUS
 PARASITIC OR FILE VIRUS
• IT INFECTS EXECUTABLE FILES OR
PROGRAMMES
• THESE FILES ARE OFTEN IDENTIFIED BY THE
EXTENSION .EXE IN THE NAME OF THE
COMPUTER FILE
 BOOTSCRAP VIRUS
• THEY RESIDE ON THE 1ST SECTOR OF THE
HARD DISK OR FLOPPY DISK, KNOWN AS
BOOT SECTOR
• THEY REPLACE PROGRAMMES THAT STORE
INFO ABOUT DISK CONTENTS OR
PROGRAMMES THAT RUN THE COMPUTER
STARTUP
• SPREAD BY MEANS OF FLOPPY DISKS
 MULTI-PARTITE VIRUS
• COMBINE ABILITIES OF PARASITIC AND
BOOTSCRAP SECTOR VIRUSES
• INFECTS BOTH FILES AND BOOT SECTOR
• SPREADS WHEN A COMPUTER USER BOOTS
FROM AN INFECTED DISKETTE OR FILE
SYSTEM
 MACRO VIRUS
• INFECTS PROGRAMMES THAT CONTAIN
POWERFUL MACRO LANGUAGES
• THEY ARE WRITTEN IN MACRO LANGUAGES
• AUTOMATICALLY EXECUTE WHEN THE
LEGITIMATE PROGRAMME IS OPENED
 SCRIPT VIRUS
• WRITTEN IN SCRIPT PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES, SUCH AS VBSCRIPT AND
JAVASCRIPT
• MORE POWERFUL BECAUSE MOST ARE
CLOSELY RELATED TO OS ENVIRONMENT
• EX- ‘ILOVEYOU’ VIRUS, APPEARED IN 2000,
INFECTED 1-5 MILLION COMPUTERS
 COMMON VIRUSES
• TROJAN HORSE

• DISGUISED AS A GAME, APPLICATION, OR

UTILITY
• DOES SOMETHING DEVIOUS, WHILE APPEAR
TO DO SOMETHING USEFUL
• WORM

• PROPAGATES ITSELF ACROSS COMPUTERS

• SPAWNS COPIES OF ITSELF IN MEMORY
• OFTEN CAUSES CRASH
• THE TERM HAS COME FROM A SCI-FI NOVEL
 CONCLUSION
• VIRUS ARE DANGEROUS, AS WELL AS USEFUL
IN DESTRUCTIVE PURPOSE
• DAY BY DAY, THEY ARE GROWING MORE
SOPHISTICATED
• SPREAD BY E-MAIL, AVOID OPEANING JUNK
AND SPAM MAILS
• VBS-LOVELETTER, KNOWN AS THE LOVE BUG,
AND THE I LOVE YOU VIRUS, MOST PREVALENT
• MOST COSTLY VIRUS EVER
• ESTIMATED LOSES US$10 BILLION
• LOVE BUG INFECTS 1 IN EVERY 5
COMPUTERS WORLDWIDE
 FINALLY
• GOOD
• VIRUS ARE GOOD IF YOU ARE A TERRORIST
OR HACKER

• BAD
• IF, SPELLS HAVOC IF IT INFECTS YOUR
COMPUTER AND WRECKS IT
 MORAL OF THE STORY
• AN ANTIVIRUS A DAY, KEEPS THE
VIRUS AWAY.
 SO…….

THANK YOU