Computer viruses

By Paresh Patel(11)
Piyush Patel(13)
Pragnesh Patel(14)
 Full form of VIRUS

• Vital Information Resources Under Seize

 Introduction
• A computer virus is a small software program that
spreads from one computer to another computer
and that interferes with computer operation.
• computer virus may corrupt or delete data on a
computer.
• It is a computer program that can reproduce by
changing other programs to include a copy of itself
and infect a computer.
 How computer viruses spread
• Executed by someone clicking on email attachment
• Automatically through a network via security
holes/flaws
• By clicking on infected files
• When viruses spread they do different thing
Viruses can not do any harm to hardware but
they can do harm to programs for example to
BIOS so that computer does not start after that.
Types of Viruses
• Boot sector virus
• File infecting virus
• Polymorphic virus
• Stealth virus
• Multi-partite virus
• Network virus
• E-mail virus
• Macro virus
How Computer Virus can damage
your system?
Top 10 Most Dangerous Computer Viruses

• 1. Sadmind worm (2001)

• 2. Beast Trojan (2002)
• 3. SQL Slammer (2003)
• 4. Sasser (2004)
• 6. Nyxem (2006)
• 7. Storm Worm (2007)
• 8. Conficker (2008)
• 9. Daprosy Worm (2009)
• 10. Alureon (2010)
 Preventing Virus Infection
• Install and regularly update anti-virus software. This, in
conjunction with good housekeeping, can greatly reduce the
threat caused by computer viruses.
• All floppy disks or other removal media, should remain
within the confines of the computer room. It is not advisable
to let students bring them home or return with them to
school. However, if this occurs they should be scanned
immediately using antivirus software. Floppies should also
be write-protected.
• Files should be saved to a designated hard drive where
incoming files can be scanned automatically by anti-virus
software.
• When the sender of an e-mail is not known to the recipient,
avoid clicking on attachments containing an executable file.
 How Antivirus detect the viruses
• An anti-virus software program is a computer
program that can be used to scan files to
identify and eliminate computer viruses and
other malicious software.
•
• Anti-virus software typically uses two different
techniques to accomplish this:
• 1> Virus dictionary approach
• 2> Suspicious behavior approach
• Virus dictionary approach
• In the virus dictionary approach, when the anti-virus
software examines a file, it refers to a dictionary of
known viruses that have been identified by the
author of the anti-virus software. If a piece of code in
the file matches any virus identified in the dictionary,
then the anti-virus software can then either delete
the file.
• Suspicious behavior approach
The suspicious behavior approach, by contrast,
doesn't attempt to identify known viruses, but
instead monitors the behavior of all programs. If one
program tries to write data to an executable
program.
 Top 10 anti viruses
• Kaspersky antivirus
• Bit defender anti virus
• Eset Nod 32 antivirus system
• Avg antivirus
• Avati anti virus
• McAfee antivirus
• Norton antivirus
• Panda antivirus
• Trend Micro - (Pc-Cillin) Anti Virus
• F secure antivirus
 Conclusion
• There are lots of viruses in the world and new viruses
are coming up every day. There are new anti-virus
programs and techniques developed too. It is good
to be aware of viruses and other malware and it is
cheaper to protect you environment from them
rather than being sorry.