Viruses, Worms, Trojans and Anti-Viruses Amity School of Business
Viruses, Worms, Trojans and Anti-Viruses Amity School of Business
What is a virus?
A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. A virus can only spread from one computer to another when its host is taken to the uninfected computer, for instance by a user sending it over a network or the Internet, or by carrying it on a removable medium such as a floppy disk, CD, or USB drive.
What is a WORM ?
A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computer terminals on the network) and it may do so without any user intervention. Unlike a virus, it does not need to attach itself to an existing program. Worms almost always cause harm to the network, if only by consuming bandwidth, whereas viruses almost always corrupt or modify files on a targeted computer.
Types of Viruses: Boot viruses Program viruses Multipartite viruses Stealth viruses Polymorphic viruses
VBScript A virus that uses Windows VisualBasic Script functionality (approx. 10%)
Internet Worm A virus that is primarily characterized by its replication across the Internet (approx. 5%)
ANTIVIRUS
Antivirus software are computer programs that attempt to identify, neutralize or eliminate malicious software. The term "antivirus" is used because the earliest examples were designed exclusively to combat computer viruses; however most modern antivirus software is now designed to combat a wide range of threats, including worms, phishing attacks, Trojans, often described collectively as malware.
How To Scan?
Anti-Virus Is Scanning
New Folder.exe
It looks just like an folder but actually it is a exe file. Step 1: Try deleting the file. It will delete if you havent executed it, if youre unable to delete it Go to Task manager ( by pressing ctrl+shift+esc )
Go to Process Tab and try finding that the process for the exe file and end the process. Then Go to the same folder containing the exe file and delete it. Then Open Search and try finding the .exe files of same size and delete them all.
Removal of Autorun.inf
Open Run dialog Box. Type in CMD press ENTER.
The Command Prompt will Open Now. In Command prompt go to the drive containing Autorun.inf Now Type In attrib h s a and press enter. This will remove drives attributes for all Hidden, System files. Now Type Delete autorun.inf and press Enter. The Virus has been Successfully Removed.
THANK YOU !!
Reference websites www.google.com
www.wikipedia.org
Presentation made by: Hitanshu Gupta Parshav Agarwal Karan Patwari