Web Applications And Conventional Desktop Applications

As we know virus protection software is a code written by one of the programing languages that we know. This code works as a search engine looking for infected files in the entire system or specific locations on the system. The idea depends on two important factors which are, search engine and viruses’ data base. The following scenario explains how people get viruses and how virus protection software works.

The specific program used to prevent viruses, worms and Trojans which attached in the email or website.

In our technologically advanced society,the number of cyber-attacks continue to grow every day. According to AV-Test there is more than 395,000 new malicious are now registered every single day, and the total amount of malware attacks in circulation is around 425,000,000 marks. (Price, D 2015). Cyber attacks are not only about stealing data or making system offline, but also there can be real world damage too. An attacker can easily hack the details of a government system and can be control it from anywhere in the world. In 2015, there are more than 110,000 Facebook users have fallen victim to a Trojan in just two days. Cyber security experts identified that the malware belongs to a virus group belonging to the ‘kilim family’. The attackers spammed Facebook timelines and Newsfeeds with malicious malware that spread pornographic images and videos. These threads worked by tagging an infected user’s friends in a Facebook post, which when opened, started to play a preview of a porn video.And at the end of that preview it asked them to download a Flash player in order to watch the rest of the vdeo. That fake download is actually the malware downloader. The malware uses a multi-layer redirection architecture, which uses the ow.ly URL shortener, Amazon web service and Box.com cloud storage. The malware comes under the form of a URL or website

Developed by West Coast Labs Checkmark Certification, SpyHunter Security Suite is one of the best and the strongest anti-malware tool in the market. It can easily prevent any kind of online attack on your computer system. The Real-Time Protection feature of Spyhunter will give you an ultimate security with the ability to scan the computer system, detect any type of malware existence and provide reliable removal services. The UI of Spyhunter is so simple that even a novice person can use it, who never have their hands on any anti-malware tool previously. Once you install and register Spyhunter Anti-malware on the computer system, you can just forget to worry about your computer’s virtual protection. Once SpyHunter application is installed on

Explains what a botnet is, how it is created, used and the amount or types of data that can be collected over time. The ability to track or monitor many of these botnets by antivirus software is reported to be a very low percentage of known botnets. One of the basic principles is almost a “throw everything at it and see what sticks” mentality in that developers will employ a botnet through embedding it in a quasi-convincing spam message and hoping the reader is dumb enough to click on the link (Mittleman 67.)

Digital attacks , mainly in the form of DOS denial of service through the use of malicious code, viruses, worms, Trojans and many more are a threat to an organisations information portal.

Main crime use: This crimeware's current focus is downloading an adware BHO (browser helper object) onto a compromised system.

In the middle of 2005, Carlton Draught released an advertisement, called its "Big Ad." Visitors to the website www.bigad.com.au would be presented with a prompt from their browser about a signed Java applet that would then allow the visitor to view a video as it was streamed to their computers. The video was constructed in an "epic" style, meaning it looked very big, very expensive, and so very impressive. As such, after being online for only a day, the advertisement was viewed 162,000 times, and after two weeks the video had been viewed more than one million times, in at least 132 countries. An experiment, the subject of this case study, was conducted to assess the effect of human propagated malware that could be delivered from a website mirroring the Carlton Draught Big Ad site (Jakobsson & Ramzan).

This scripting language is also increasingly being used as an attack mechanism by predators that exploit vulnerabilities within the client’s web browser; unpatched software or other JavaScript based applications for mounting their attack (Karanth et al, 2011). The assailant commonly obtains the information for identify theft and for personal financial gains (Wadlow, 2009).

However, most users are not aware of the amount of personal information that can be collected without their consent when they do such ordinary things as visiting a Web page, opening a document, or reading an e-mail message. The protocol of the Web requires that a certain amount of information be exchanged between a user’s Web browser and the Web server with which it is communicating. The server needs to know the type and version of the browser because different versions have different capabilities, such as support for Java or online forms. The Web server knows the page from which the user came and the page to which the user goes because that information is part of the environment shared by the Web server and the users Web browser.

Just like a biological virus, a computer virus is able to infect and ruin lives. This malicious software constitutes more than just simple viruses but also includes other types of software including worms, Trojan horses, and ransomware. Malware has been around since the late 1980’s. Originally, people became hackers to gain notoriety online, but today, it has become more of a business. Cyber attacks originate from all around the world, and it is not just individual people that benefit from it. In two decades, numerous cyber crime syndicates have been created, and states all over the world sponsor hacker groups. Over the past twenty-five years, malware has become less about checking the integrity of computer security and gaining notoriety in the underground cyber society, and it has become more of a chaos creating, money making business that many people and institutions take part in.

In the scope computerized threat rootkits are not given the credit they deserve. They tend to be minimized while they proved to be a much serious danger. Dr Mark Ciampa had categorized rootkits under the concealment subgroup of malware, which avoiding detection is their primary characteristic. He had briefly defined rootkits as set software tools used to hide the actions of other types of software by changing the operating system to force it to ignore their malicious files and activities. Rootkits also hide or remove all traces of evidence that may reveal the malware, he said. His definition is not totally accurate even though he pin pointed the main purpose for what rootkits are used for, which is concealment. Contrary to the popular believe rootkits are not malware and not necessarily malicious. Greg Hoglund and James Butler in the Subverting Windows Kernel Rootkits book identified rootkits as a computing technology that can be used for evil or goods purposes. For the sake of this paper, the attention given to rootkits will be focusing on understanding what a rootkit is and how it works, the different type of rootkits and their implementations, detection measure to not get infected and preventive measure to avoid infection.

Malware comes in a variety of forms, and from a variety of sources. Over the last few decades malware has grown more sophisticated and more dangerous. The main types of malware include computer viruses, worms, trojans, and bots. Malware can be separated further into sub-categories such as backdoor trojans, remote access trojans, information stealers, and ransomware. The different forms of malware use different techniques to damage or infect the targeted computer. However, all malware has one thing in common, self-replication. Before we can learn about this self-replication that is key to all malware today, we must learn about the evolution of malware. The evolution

The term malware (another way to say "malicious program design") have been normally used to allude to the conventional dangers postured by toxicities, Trojans, and worms. In the sequence of the most recent couple of years, the dangers presented by various different sorts of projects, including spyware and adware, have been constantly expanding. Spyware missions can quickly appear quickly, commandeer program sessions, divert programs to choose aim at locales or aggregate following data on client skimming propensities. They can make use of a client 's PC assets without his or her educated say-so, or even log a client 's keystrokes and

The main aim of this research is to analyze different approaches to the problem of virus spreading and propose new methods which are based on the comprehensive analysis of previous solutions. This paper outlines pros and cons of three models such as susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS), susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) and susceptible-inflected-removed-antidotal (SIRA). From this survey we could make a conclusion that all existing models mentioned above are appropriate for computer network protection from the virus spreading problem. However, all these approaches have a number of disadvantages. So, in terms of lack of safety in computers protection from virus spreading new solutions should be found.