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Viruses (Malicious Software): Software
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Some viruses try to trick anti-virus software by intercepting its requests to the operating system. A virus can hide itself by intercepting the anti-virus software’s request to read the file and passing the request to the virus, instead of the OS. The virus can then return an uninfected version of the file to the anti-virus software, so that it seems that the file is "clean". Modern anti-virus software employs various techniques to counter stealth mechanisms of viruses. The only completely reliable method to avoid stealth is to boot from a medium that is known to be clean.
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Like biological viruses, there are millions of viruses "in the wild" on the Internet. Most of themare easily contained and while some become household names and stories on the nightly news, few people ever experience or hear about them. Viruses have the potential to severely damage data on your PC and disrupt Internet connectivity worldwide. Internet security firms such as F-Secure employ round-the-clock antivirus teams to immediately investigate new threats and quickly provide counter-measures to users of their software.
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Both insider and virus incidents have been falling since a high in the year 2000, but this is the first time insider incidents have been more reported than viruses. The CSI defines such incidents in a very general way, covering abuses such as leaking or stealing company information, using pirated software, or accessing pornography.
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If you do not do the steps listed above, software failure can occur within minutes of connection to the internet as viruses from the internet attack your computer's operating system. Hardware failure ... depends on the care with which you handle the computer, but machines older than three years will tend to exhibit software and hardware failure.
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Because software is often designed with security features to prevent unauthorized use of system resources, many viruses must exploit software bugs in a system or application to spread. Software development strategies that produce large numbers of bugs will generally ... produce potential exploits.
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Effective virus protection software will guard your computer, automatically detecting and scanning downloads for known viruses. Some popular virus protection software makers include: McAfee Security, Symantec, Computer Associates, F-Secure and Trend Micro.
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