ITEC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Master Boot Record, Seagate Technology, Isight
22 Jan 2018
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Computer viruses are written for several operating systems, including windows, macintosh, Unix, and others: virus writers can become very aggressive in their attacks. For example, a variant of the gpcode virus encrypts various file types including . doc, . txt, . pdf, . xls, and images, and then demands a ransom payment for the key required to decrypt the files: an increasing problem is the purchase of computer equipment already infected with malware. Best buy unknowingly sold digital picture frames that were infected with a computer virus during the manufacturing process: seagate technology confirmed that many of its 500 gb hard drives left an. Asian manufacturing plant infected with malware designed to steal online gaming passwords: worms are parasitic computer programs that replicate but, unlike viruses, do not infect other computer program files. Worms can create copies on the same computer or can send the copies to other computers via a network.
