Please research one virus and one worm, and write a maximum 2-page single-spaced paper explaining what each of them is, what they do, what their impact was, what the mechanics of how they work are (the technical aspect), and how were they stopped.
Computer virus: It is a piece of code which is loaded onto the computer without the user knowledge and runs itself. When this code is executed, it makes a copy of itself and inserts this copy into another computer programs, data files of the hard drive. Such small virus also steals hard disk space and CPU time , corrupts data. This is dangerous because it will make use of available memory and brings system to halt.
Brain Virus:
Brain virus is the first computer virus which was released in January …show more content…
After the worm is downloaded, the worm on the infecting computer will close the TFTP server. If blaster finds an active network connection, it will begin to look for new machines to infect. The worm sleeps for 20 second intervals and awakens to look for new machines to infect.
• The worms executable, MSBlast.exe contains two messages. The first reads: I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!
• This message gave the worm the alternative name of Love san. The second reads: Billy Gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software.
• This is a message to Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and the target of the worm.
The worm also creates the following registry entry so that it is launched every time Windows starts:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ windows auto update=msblast.exe
Blaster uses two methods for searching IP addresses to infect new machines. Blasters cannot spread to the windows server 2003, Unpatched computers running these OS may crash as a result of the worms will attempt to exploit them. Blaster worm uses the affected computers as a propagation medium to spread virus to other machines. The Blaster worm caused system to reboot every 60 seconds.
The following Microsoft operating systems are affected by Blaster
Computer virus: It is a piece of code which is loaded onto the computer without the user knowledge and runs itself. When this code is executed, it makes a copy of itself and inserts this copy into another computer programs, data files of the hard drive. Such small virus also steals hard disk space and CPU time , corrupts data. This is dangerous because it will make use of available memory and brings system to halt.
Brain Virus:
Brain virus is the first computer virus which was released in January …show more content…
After the worm is downloaded, the worm on the infecting computer will close the TFTP server. If blaster finds an active network connection, it will begin to look for new machines to infect. The worm sleeps for 20 second intervals and awakens to look for new machines to infect.
• The worms executable, MSBlast.exe contains two messages. The first reads: I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!
• This message gave the worm the alternative name of Love san. The second reads: Billy Gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software.
• This is a message to Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and the target of the worm.
The worm also creates the following registry entry so that it is launched every time Windows starts:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ windows auto update=msblast.exe
Blaster uses two methods for searching IP addresses to infect new machines. Blasters cannot spread to the windows server 2003, Unpatched computers running these OS may crash as a result of the worms will attempt to exploit them. Blaster worm uses the affected computers as a propagation medium to spread virus to other machines. The Blaster worm caused system to reboot every 60 seconds.
The following Microsoft operating systems are affected by Blaster