Tell me more about dangers of viruses through the internet and other software viruses.?
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Viruses come in all shapes and danger levels.  There is everything from trojans to everday viruses.  Most of these either alter data on your computer or they gather data from your computer for a certain person or company.  Either way they are dangerous.  There are some major ones taht alter boot data and cause your computer to no longer be able to start up properly.  Many of them some from websites without you knowing or from downloads (which you never download from someone that you do not know).  Get good antivirus software and keep it up to date and you should have no problems with it.\n\nOh, and most boot-up viruses do nto go away by reformatting your hard drive as they will "hide" in your RAM chips.  There are some sneaky ones out there, so make sure that you keep a good antivirus program on your computer, keep it active, and keep it up to date.
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Oh, and Phishing! How does that work? And how do I set up a Trojan Horse? And what is the best way to run a distributed DOS attack?\n\nWOW! Isn't the internet FUN boys and girls?
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Try the paper "A Generic Virus Scanner in C++" by Spafford and Kumar.(link below)\n\nIt was written in 1992 but gives the layout of an antivirus scanner.  Theory and source code.\n\nSecond, try an open source antivirus scanner: ClamAV. More current and the source code is available.  It is field tested against real Windows mass-mailing worms. ClamAV also shows how one might handle updating virus detections.
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http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html?prodid=nav2006\nSymantec's virus encyclopedia.\n.
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Most of these have deadly viruses. You have to be exceedingly careful.
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details here http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-virus/macintosh-faq/
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Go to www.pccillin.com they give a free scanner for theses viruses and others for free.
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Yes any site on the Internet can have Java or Active x and that makes it possible to insert a virus into your computer through your browser. Anytime you play a flash game, hear music, or watch a video it is at least stored as a temporary file on your computer.
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each virus is different, so you'd need to know which one it was...or know in-depth how your os works (and that is a book, not a post at yahoo answers)
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attack of virus, distruction of files,etc
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In addition to Hybrid's answer:\n\nDepending on the severity/quantity of viruses, you may want to look into:\n\n1) If you have an anti-virus program, run a full scan on your system. Look for McAffee or Norton antivirus tools in "programs" for starters.\n\n2) If you have no antivirus program installed, try AVG free addition. It is easy to install and you'll receive regular updates to counter new virus attacks. You can also use tools to run full scans on your system. You can download it at: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl...\n\nOr, try the following link:\nhttp://housecall.trendmicro.com/...\n\n3) If a PC is plagued with viruses, your best bet is to clean the system BEFORE it boots. This can be done by using some free tools available. Check out:\n\nhttp://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/intro/...\n\nYou use PE Builder to make a bootable CDROM that loads a windows-like interface in memory. Because none of your hard drive files are locked they can be cleaned of any viruses. BartPE provides free McAffee plugins that you can run to accomplish this. WARNING: you have to fairly computer savy to work with BartPE. You may want to recruit a friend to help. It's more work, but I've found this to be the most effective way to clean your system.\n\nHTH,\nD
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To avoid re-inventing the wheel myself i'm posting links instead of explaining evthing.\n\nYou can read about portscanning here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portscanning\n\nYou can read about trojan horse here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_%28computing%29\n\nI would suggest, don't worry about it and let the firewall do its job. Keep your firewall definitions updated. Block unwanted program access to the internet. And continue the good job of keeping your virus definitions updated. \n\nGood luk
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try some online virus scanners..theres too many to list but search in google for online virus scanner and im sure u will get some results
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Hey pal,\n\nNowadays making a virus is not so difficult, every programmers who worked more than 1 year can do this.\n\nSo there are alot of virus to find out.\n\nCiao,
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There's also a scanner on Microsoft's website that will scan for viruses and help remove them. \n\nI figure it's the least they could do for allowing so many problems. :)
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O MAN!!! I got a brand new pc....two days I had a virus and I have TWO virus detectors!!! Yes, you will get them! :(
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virus' of all types are sneeky they get into your pc some sites have it set up that if you accidently right click on a website you are automatically getting a virus. If you find you are getting a lot of virus' you might want to stay away from certain types of websites such as porn, booter, hacker sites etc these are usually very dangerous if you dont know what you are doing or dont have the correct program to stop this. Also get a good popup stopper