1. By
Quentin Lively
Notorious Viruses

2. Melissa Virus Melissa Virus worst recorded Infected word document
List of suggestive website
Sent to the first 50 contacts in .
Fastest spreading known virus.

3. The Anna Kournikova Virus
Computer Virus
attributed to a Dutch programmer Jan de Wit on February 11, 2001
Another Microsoft used virus
Still went through your
Didn’t to much
Effective transmission mechanism

4. MyDoom Fastest Spreading worm Went through emails
It placed loads of random searches in Google/Yahoo
Put a comment saying “Andy sorry just doing my job”
People think someone got payed

5. Sasser & Netsky most famous and prolific variants of computer worms
first time that a virus insulted other virus authors
Netsky included code that removed versions of the competing viruses.
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6. 2007 Storm Worm Trojan that affects Microsoft based computers.
Connects computer a network of remotely- controllable computers.

7. Virus types
Memory Resident Virus: infects all the files that are then opened
Direct Action Viruses: virus is to replicate many different affects.
Overwrite Viruses: deletes the information contained in the files that it infects

8. Virus types continued
Boot Sector Virus: affects the boot sector of a hard disk.
Macro Virus: infect files that are created using certain applications or programs that contain macros,
Worms: they can be detected and eliminated by an antivirus software.
Trojans: disguises itself as a useful program or application.

9. Norton Detects and removes spyware and unwanted monitoring software.
Block Internet worms at the point of entry.
Block hackers from accessing your computer
Smart Startup Manager turns off unnecessary startup programs for faster PC startups
Tightly integrated spam filtering makes every count

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11. Anti Virus Different types Some very affective others not
Very expensive
Some Weak
Some Very Strong
Many types

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