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Link Viruses These viruses can be very harmful. They alter the directory structure and redirect the directory entry to the place that contains a virus. Disinfecting these viruses is very dangerous also. |
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Cavity Infectors Whenever the regular virus attaches to the program, it can be detected by seeing the increase of file size. Cavity infectors find a hole and record themselves there, so the actual file size won't increase. |
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Macro Viruses They are placed inside the macros within the document. They are usually found in the documents of Microsoft Office Applications. |
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Multipartite Viruses These are viruses which target several file types. ... Previous |
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Latest News: November 8th, 2002 There is a growing epidemic of I-Worm.Tanatos, aka Bugbear. It spreads via Internet as an attached file. It contains Trojan algorithms to control the infected computer. The worm has a size of 50k and is written in Microsoft Visual C++. It has a random subject line and randomly sends either text emails or html-based emails. Tanatos takes advantage of the breach in iframe and infects computer without any action on the part of user, whenever the email is opened. More... November 1st, 2002 Microsoft Corporation is warning the users of their products about a new worm that pretends to be a greeting card. People who read this greeting are invited to install new software. In the installation agreement it states that the software will have access to the user's address book. On Tuesday, MessageLabs discovered that these "greeting cards" are being sent from Cool-Downloads.com, which according to whois database is registered in Panama City, El Dorado. More... |
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