ITM 305 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ipsec, Hostname, Serial Line Internet Protocol
14 Mar 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Malware: is designed to infect file systems (local or network) 3 types of malware exist: virus, worm, logic, virus: a virus is a malware designed to infect local file system. Viruses enter into a pc using external disks or internet: worm: is a malware designed to infect network systems. Ex: red worm: logic bomb can be a virus or a worm, a logic bomb activates/ triggers through user action (cid:523)click, dbclick . (cid:524) Or date/time: most logic bombs are viruses. An exam of a logic bomb is online software package: type of viruses, boot sector virus- impacts the process of booting, macro virus: attaches itself to microsoft software packages (excel, Powerpoint, word, database access: polymorphism: is a type of virus that changes its behavior to avoid detection. Changes name, size (in bytes), date: encrypted virus: the virus code is encrypted to avoid deletion.
