The People Who Write Viruses

Sometimes I think that it helps to understand a little bit more about the people who perpetrate crimes, in order to be able to avoid being a victim of those crimes. Others of you may just have a morbid curiosity about those who like to hurt other people. Either way, you’ll learn a little more about the people who construct the malicious programs that cause billions of dollars of damage each year.

Why they write ’em

The actual crime of writing and distributing viruses is a crime of anonymity: The perpetrators usually carry out their crimes anonymously, from the safety of their rooms. They expect never to meet their victims face to face — in fact, they rarely know who their victims are.

How Early Viruses Spread from Computer to Computer

In the mid-to-late 1980s, data was most often transferred from computer to computer by using floppy disks and so-called bulletin board systems (BBSs), managed online locations that were the forerunners of today’s Web sites.

Stowing away on floppy disks

Even without using the Internet, people in offices where PCs were used traded and circulated programs, documents, and spreadsheets — not to mention jokes, games, filthy pictures, and so forth. The standard method was sneaker net — walking up to another person and handing over a floppy disk.

Invasion of the Computer Viruses

Simply stated, a computer virus is a computer program written by a person (not always, but usually, a jerk) who designed it to spread to as many computers as possible.

This definition seems simple enough, but indulges me. I’d like to zero in a bit further, to clarify some issues and to dispel some misunderstandings:

Computer program: A virus is nothing more than a set of instructions, written in a high-level programming language, such as Visual Basic, C, C++, or Java, translated into “native” instructions (a long list of ones and zeros) that are used by the computer’s CPU.

First Computer Virus (Brain, the first virus)

In Pakistan, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi ran a computer store called Brain Computer Services.

They soon discovered that a floppy disk contained computer instructions that were executed when the computer was first turned on. Basit and Amjad used this knowledge for their own purposes and created computer instructions that would change the label of floppy disks in the computer to (C) Brain. The instructions would make a copy of themselves onto other floppy disks that were inserted into the floppy-disk drive.

China Emerging SuperPower 21st Century

Is China Emerging Superpower in the 21^st Century?

American economy is really in bad shape. About 1.2 million people have lost their jobs during the last 2 years economic meltdown. The unemployment rate has gone up to 11%. America is presently the most highly indebted country in the world. With total loans of about 17 trillion dollars, china is the biggest single lender having a share of about $ one trillion. It is estimated that USA would add another 7 Trillion dollars to it burden of debits during the next five years to meet its budget deficits. Street demonstrations with banners and play cards such as “we have been fighting Iraq and afghan war with borrowed money, is unjustified and unwinnable war” stop plying world policeman role and concentrate on your economy and wellbeing of the people are on the rise. This shows the public mood and disapproval of their government policies. 

How to Installing Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.0 for Windows

Step-by-step instructions on how to install Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows.

Symantec Endpoint Protection Setup Manual

If there is other antivirus software they should be uninstalled before installing Symantec EndPoint Protection Software. Otherwise, Different Antivirus software can detect definition files of other software as a threat that can create some problems. 

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China's Economy Growth Policy

China, the third largest country in the world, is famous for various things; it has one of the world eldest people, civilization, and world’s longest used written languages, many major inventions like paper, compass, gunpowder and printing, The Great wall of china, friendly people, and the best geographical condition. China situates in the eastern Asia which share it borders with Korea Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Burma, Laos and Vietnam. Major cities of china are Beijing, Chengdu, Hong Kong, Lhasa, pingyao, shanghai, Xian, yangshuao, and Urumqi, Suzhou and many others.

How to Use Public Computers? How to safe account Information from Public Computers?

Public libraries, Internet cafes, and other customer-serving establishments have their own computers that customers may use to access the Internet. Are these computers safe for you to use?

Tales abound of public-access computers infected with viruses, spyware, and even key loggers, many deliberately planted there in order to elicit information from unsuspecting users. I recall specifically in 2004 a case where a person was arrested for installing a key logger program on a computer in a well-known copy services store in order to record users’ bank account numbers and passwords. This is technology gone awry.

Saving Your Software’s License Information

Nearly every time you purchase software — whether you get it from a retail store, have it shipped to you, or purchase a downloadable version — you have to deal with license codes (also called license keys) to make the product work. Sometimes license keys come on little stickers in the packaging, other times they are printed on the CD. They might be e-mailed to you, found on a Web page, or even read to you over the phone.

How to Protect Your PDAs and Mobile Phone in Other Ways

There are plenty of things besides antivirus programs that you can do to help protect your PDA and its data. Get ready for several digital hygiene tips — PDA style! As with your PC, the motto “trust no one” will keep your PDA and your information safe.

Turning off wireless auto-connect

Many PDAs are configured to automatically accept any incoming connection request, whether it’s