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Infectable Objects Part One - DOS In the early days of computer viruses, there were not that many types of objects which could be infected. In fact, it was very rare to hear talk about infected objects - we spoke of infected boot and partition sectors as well as executable files, as those were the types of infections one would encounter. For a number of years, little else was at risk, as virus authors focused on the most common objects which could be infected. Of course, this was also before Windows became available and infectable Macros were not yet even a glimmer in the eyes of any malicious coder.
03/23/2004
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A History of Viruses If you want a computer virus, just put together a programmer who wants to vandalize, a little programming knowledge, some computers for the virus to spread to, and some people to see the results. Until the late 1970s, the first two items were available in relative abundance. Computers had already been a Big Deal for more than two decades, and the latent human drive to create mischief (or worse) was similarly well established. To continue the analogy, we had the taggers, and the spray paint. By 1980, the wall, and the people to see the results, were not far behind.
03/23/2004
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Computer Trojan Horses Everyone wants to have trojans because they let you have access to your victim's hard drive, and also perform many functions on his computer (open and close his CD-ROM drive, put message boxes on his computer etc"), which will scare off most computer users and are also a hell lot of fun to run on your friends or enemies.
03/22/2004
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Malware: Evolution I strongly advise the readers to explore this topic strictly from a research point of view and refrain from releasing harmful code. This warning is not to be taken lightly as I speak from personal experience and interaction with many people. History teaches us that both in h/v scenes, things turn nasty for the creators once it's out of control.
03/22/2004
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Virus protection in a Microsoft Windows network, or How to stand a chance Computer viruses have always been a weird part of the computer security game. It is the aspect of computer security that gets the most press coverage, while it is probably the less dangerous to deal with (compared to trojans or intrusion). To many security experts, viruses are not such a big threat because you don"t get infected if you practice safe computing practices. While this may have been the truth for a while, but it isn"t the case anymore. For the past five years, the Internet have grown up quite a bit, now having millions of people with poor computer litteracy online, from their houses or from businesses. While UNIX used to be a big part of the Internet (and still is), the fact remains that there are a lot of Microsoft networks connected to it at this time. A virus launched from the Internet can cripple down a business if appropriate measures are not taken. I think small and medium enterprises here, but also big corporations. The last breeds of Macro.Viruses are just a hint of
03/22/2004
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Reverse Engineering a Purported Microsoft Security Patch In this paper we will examine and dissect a malicious package sent to us as an attachment to an email that appeared to be sent from Microsoft that would fix all known vulnerabilities on our system. In addition, we will review the delivery method, analyze the executable and study the impact it had on a system once it was installed.
03/22/2004
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Banking Scam Revealed This document describes the unique bulk-mailing tool used for recent rash of financial email scams. These scams target financial entities such as Citibank, Wells Fargo, Halifax Bank, eBay, and Yahoo. Only one specific spam gang uses this tool for these financial scams. This spam gang started slow with only a few members, but has increased in both gang membership and spam volume.
03/22/2004
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