Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
The computer virus is a problem to computer users at all
levels including students, home users, corporate users, system administrators,
corporate managers and even the anti-virus manufacturers. The viruses are
written by people with malefic intentions to trouble the innocent users.
There are many types of viruses are boot sector viruses,
file viruses, worms, Trojan horses, macro viruses etc. Each of these has many
different variants. The older viruses were transmitting through floppies. Some
older viruses like boot sector viruses are very rare nowadays as nobody boots
from floppies. The modern day viruses transmit more through networks and
emails. Macro viruses are most prevalent in the current days.
The viruses generally try to exploit the loopholes of the
operating system, application programs, windows sockets and even anti-virus
programs. Some viruses are so dangerous that they can make the system
completely unusable and irreparable.
Keywords: Software Innovation, Inventive Problem
Solving, Software inventions, computer virus, anti-virus, boot sector virus,
Trojan horse, computer worms, macro virus, network virus, vulnerability,
computer security,
Mishra,
Umakant, An Introduction to Computer Viruses (August 25, 2010). Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1916631 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1916631
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