A presentation about the fundamental of computer viruses for Damascus university course

1. viruses

2. Viruses
viruses
history
evolution
worm
s
protectio
n
origins

3. Virus history

4.  The reasons that led to creating the
viruses:
 the spread of personal computers
 the use of computer bulletin boards
 the floppy disk

5. Computer viruses are called viruses because they share
some of the traits of biological viruses

6. Virus evolution:
The tricks the virus creators learned:
the ability to load
viruses into memory
the ability to infect
the boot sector on
floppy disks and hard
disks

7. A wormis a computer program that has the ability to copy
itself from machine to machine

8. for Protection:
you should run a more secure
operating system like UNIX.
avoid programs from
unknown sources
make sure that Macro Virus
Protection is enabled in all
Microsoft applications
never double-click on an e-
mail attachment that contains
an executable

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