A Look Into The Computer Virus
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Engineering 201.02
Most of us swap disks with friends and browse the Net looking for downloads.
Rarely do we ever consider that we are also exchanging files with anyone and
everyone who has ever handled them in the past. If that sounds like a warning
about social diseases, it might as well be.
Com ....
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.... not. (Microsoft
Encarta 1996)
Most viruses are created out of curiosity. Viruses have always been viewed as a
well written, creative product of software engineering. I admit there are many
out there who create them out of malice, but far more people are just meeting a
challenge in software design. The people who make anti-virus software have much
more to benefit from the creation of new virii. This is not a slam, just an
observation. A common type of virus would be a Trojan Horse, or a d ....
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