| geek_kzm | October 10, 2008, 12:19 pm | #1 |
| How do virus's start or where do they come from? Say your computer has a virus, does everyone you email or every web page you visit get infected as well ?
My sister has just told me that's what happens .. I don't know if its true or not .. because if that was true, would the whole web be one big infection ? |
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| geek_executor1 | October 10, 2008, 12:27 pm | #2 |
| There are many ways that viruses and trojans are spread, most common is a popup that says something like your computer has x viruses, and click here to fix them. Most of these download more viruses/trojans than when you started.
Email viruses are around, I think that they are a relativly small proportion of viruses now adays. Social Engineering is much easier. |
| geek_kzm | October 10, 2008, 12:33 pm | #3 |
| So if my computer had a virus it could not be passed onto someone else by sending them a email or by looking at a website ? |
| geek_woogmo | October 10, 2008, 12:35 pm | #4 |
| It could be by email depending on the virus, most mail providers scan mail these days anyway. You cant infect a website, the web is just text and images.. |
| geek_kzm | October 10, 2008, 12:38 pm | #5 |
| Thats what I thought because if you had a virus then you would be sending millions of virus's to everyone and nothing would work. |
| geek_sirfer | October 10, 2008, 8:06 pm | #6 |
| Well viruses are insidious little programs written by unsavoury characters with nothing better to do than fork with other peoples computers. |
| geek_ferita | October 10, 2008, 11:28 pm | #7 |
| Re: 4 depending how complex the malware was it could infect a webserver. Nimda was a classic example of this. To answer the original question, only worms can spread via email. Viruses are a different kettle of fish and are very rarely encountered these days, its mostly trojans, worms and spyware that plagues the net. |
| geek_vdt9990 | October 11, 2008, 2:25 am | #8 |
| I guess some programmer & experts write a sets of codes, virus program to annoy pplz pc, and then at the same time, write a sets of programs as antivirus, so that we cn buy from them hahahaha |
| geek_icioufa | October 11, 2008, 4:06 am | #9 |
| The Biggest Spyware Ever is in the M$ o/s when you install a M$ operating system on to your computer by accepting the M$ EULA when installing you give permission to M$ to track & use any information in what you do receive play watch when using most of their applications ... |
| geek_sirfer | October 11, 2008, 3:25 pm | #10 |
| I see someone has just installed Linux ;o) but you are correct, XP & Vista are effectively spyware. |
| geek_icioufa | October 11, 2008, 3:38 pm | #11 |
| Oh you noticed lol i still run & fix them but needed a change in life (mid life crisis)it actual goes back to 98 index.dat which M$ could call upon which holds users data unless you use ccleaner which cleans that & much more xp-antispy works on vista too Helps as well,vista is worst as it sends back URLs, history, searches to Much Big Brother for my liking IMHO, Hence my move to ubuntu ... |
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