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Some Common PC-DOS Viruses and What they Mean to You
Overview Computer viruses can be written for essentially any general-purpose computer operating system, and viruses exist for every common microcomputer. This paper covers only PC-DOS viruses, because that is where the author's expertise lies. For each of a number of currently-common computer viruses (in roughly descending order of frequency), this paper describes the basic action of the virus, the ways it spreads from machine to machine, the symptoms that it can cause, the damage (if any) it does, and how it can be protected against. While in theory viruses are difficult to detect reliably, in practice protecting against all the currently-common viruses is relatively simple. Some characteristics shared by all the common viruses make them simple to detect through any of various methods, and commercially-available anti-virus programs exist today that will protect against all of the viruses discussed here. The difficult part is not in finding a way to protect a single machine against viruses, but in effectively implementing the available protections throughout an organization.
| Publisher | IBM | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 2 |
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