Computer Viruses: Infection Vectors, And Feasibility Of Complete Prote
Computer Viruses: Infection Vectors, and Feasibility of Complete Protection
A computer virus is a program which, after being loaded into a
computer's memory, copies itself with the purpose of spreading to other
computers.
Most people, from the corporate level power programmer down to the
computer hobbyist, have had either personal experience with a virus or know
someone who has. And the rate of infection is rising monthly. This has caused a
wide spread interest in viruses and what can be done to protect the data now
entrusted to the computer systems throughout the world.
A virus can gain access to a computer system via any one of four
vectors:
1. Disk usage: in this case, infected files contained on a diskette
(including, on occasion, diskettes supplied by software
manufacturers) are loaded, and used in a previously uninfected
system thus allowing the virus to spread.
2. Local Area Network: a LAN allows multiple computers to share the......
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