Category Archives: Virus

Computer viruses are a constant menace, these are the once I came face to face with.

Windows virus infects Linux

By Ajith | Published: July 24, 2008

Windows has always been considered a vulnerable OS to viruses, but not Linux. I haven’t heared about any virus for Linux except for some university project somewhere. So do not expect me to discover a new virus for Linux. This is much more interesting, actually. The virus I found, running, on Linux (Ubuntu to be [...]

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Virus infection by autoplay, how to prevent it

By Ajith | Published: June 30, 2008

One of the main reasons of rapid spreading of viruses is due to the presence of Autoplay in Windows. Autoplay feature was originally introduced to enhance user experience. An easy way for a virus to enters a PC is through exploiting this option. You can see Autoplay in action when a driver CD of you [...]

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An introduction to Viruses

By Ajith | Published: January 26, 2008

Viruses are a constant threat to any computer system. It is more to the Windows based PC don’t mean that viruses doesn’t exist for other operating systems. If something is coded by a human then a virus can be created for it by another one. It is a universal truth. I remember an an article [...]

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