PRESENTED BY

31. Amanpreet Kaur 32. Akshata Sabbani 33. Dashmeet Singh 34. Ranjit Kaur Sahota 35. Punit kaur Saini 36. Rajpreet Kaur Saini

WHAT IS COMPUTER VIRUS?

A computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another. A computer virus is an executable program. Depend on the nature of a virus, it may cause damage of your hard disk contents, and/or interfere normal operation of your computer.

HOW DOES A VIRUS SPREAD?

There are many ways in which computer viruses spread. Through removable media like floppy disks, CD's, DVD's, Flash memory pens etc. Through the computer network (LAN, WAN, etc...) via its various services like file sharing systems Internet via Email, web services and other files sharing services in chat and IM. It can infect an entire network that is connected to the internet.

VIRUSES
A virus is a small piece of software that piggybacks on real programs. 2 main characteristics of viruses It must execute itself. It must replicate itself. Virus might attach itself to a program such as spreadsheet. Each time the spreadsheet program runs, the virus runs too and replicate itself.

COMPUTER VIRUS DEFINED

A computer virus is defined as:
A program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself

Key Property: the ability to infect other programs.

TYPES OF COMPUTER VIRUSES

Computer viruses have made their mark on the PC's since the 90's with different types of viruses causing damage to computers. The different types of computer viruses are Boot sector Record Computer Virus Program/File infector computer virus Macro Computer Virus Other Types of Viruses
Multi-Partite Viruses Polymorphic Viruses Stealth Viruses Script Viruses ActiveX & Java Applets

Boot sector Record Computer Virus

Boot sector is that area of the computer that is accessed when the computer is turned on.

Damage Caused Boot sector viruses gain complete control of the master boot record or the DOS boot sector by replacing the operating system contents with that of its own. Removal The best way to remove boot sector virus is to boot the computer with using a clean boot disk and then rewrite the files with the good operating system files on the infected disk.

PROGRAM/FILE INFECTOR COMPUTER VIRUS

This virus infects which contain code that can be executed and usually this virus infects files that can execute code like .exe, .com, .drv, .dll, .bin, .ovl Damage Caused The File infector virus can cause irreversible damage to files. By overwriting files it permanently destroys the content of these files. Removal The only way to disinfect files from the file virus is that the files affected with the file virus have to be deleted and restored from back up.

MACRO COMPUTER VIRUS

Macro is a set of commands written by the user to be executed, later. The different ways to create macros would be the macro recorder or Visual Basic for Applications. Damage Caused Some common macros are AutoExec AutoNew AutoOpen AutoClose AutoExit Removal Prevention is better than cure and the ways to prevent the virus from running is that the autoexec macro can be prevented from executing by starting word from command prompt.

Other Types of Viruses

Multi-partite viruses
Some computer viruses appear to behave like many other viruses and sometimes more than one type. These are hybrids and are called as multi-partite computer viruses.

Polymorphic viruses
These viruses are written such that it changes its code when ever it passes to another machine.

Stealth viruses
The stealth virus uses techniques to avoid detection by redirecting the disk head to read another sector or alter the file size shown in the directory listing.

script viruses
A subset of file viruses these are written in a variety of script languages like javascript, VBS, BAT, PHP etc They are also able to infect other file formats such as HTML.

Active x & java applets

Active X and java controls are being used in web browsers to enable and disable sound or video and a host of other controls.

REMOVAL OF A VIRUS
Removal of a virus depends on detection
Detection is not decidable
The removal of a virus is not absolutely guaranteed
Therefore not all viruses can be precisely detected and removed from a given computer system.

REMOVAL OF A VIRUS
If a more liberal detection method is used then detection and removal is possible
But at the expense of producing false positives and false negatives.
Ex. Erase all files created after a specific date from the system.

TIPS TO PREVENT COMPUTER VIRUS

Use antivirus software and keep it up-todate. Install security patches. Use a firewall. Secure your browser. Take control of your email. Treat IM suspiciously. Avoid P2P and distributed file sharing. Keep abreast of Internet scams. Don't fall victim to virus hoaxes.

TIPS TO PREVENT COMPUTER VIRUS

Install protection tools Periodic virus scanning Handle email attachment carefully NOT TO FORWARD Hoax messages to anyone. Screen all transport media of virus/worm Learn about hoaxes Do not use illegal software

CONCLUSION
Be aware of the new infections out there. Take precaution measures. Always backup your data. Keep up-to-date on new Anti virus software. Simply avoid programs from unknown sources.