JMOR Tech Talk Show: (Episode 13) Understand Viruses

JMOR Tech Talk Show

Episode:  13 XIII (Understanding Viruses )

1. Introductions
2. Types of Viruses
   1. Macro:  (ie:  Relax, babals, Melissa.A,(March 26,1999) Y2K
   2. TSR
   3. Over Write:  (ie TRJ)
   4. Direct Action Virus or Trigger
   5. Directory Virus
   6. Web Script:  (ie:  Fortnight)
   7. Multipartite: Does Not Infect HD
   8. Polymorphic:  (ie:  Marburg. Tuareg
   9. Worm:  (ie:  lovagate.F):  exploits weekly protected shares
   10. Trojans AKA Trojan Horse (ie:
       1. Greek Story of Trojan War (G-T)
   11. E-mail Viruses
   12. Browser Hijackers
   13. Boot Infectors
3. Top 10 Most Dangerous Viruses
   1. I Love You:    
      1. Caused over 10billion dollars of damage
      2. Sends and then makes computer unbootable
   2. Code Red:
      1. Exploited buffer overflow protection
      2. Does a Denial of Service
      3. Then Opens up a backdoor to get in
      4. It overloads computer resources till it crashes
   3. Melissa
   4. SASSER
   5. ZEUS
      1. Trojan and Keylogger
   6. Conficker:  (affected over 9 million computers world wide)
   7. Stuxnet
   8. Mydoom: 
   9. Cryptolocker
      1. Damages over 500,000 computers
      2. 1.3% paid the ransome which would be about 3 Million
   10. Flashback:  Fake Flash Install
4. Summary