Thursday, November 21, 2024

Macro Virus

What is a Macro Virus A Macro is an instruction that carries out program commands automatically. Programs like Word Processing, Spreadsheet and slide presentation make use of macros. If a user unwittingly runs a macro virus, it can then copy itself into that applications start-up file. The computer is now infected. Meaning any document on […]

Virus, information on hackers, worms, trojans, portscanning

An Introduction to Viruses According to legend the Amjad brothers of Pakistan who ran a computer shop in the mid-eighties wrote the first computer virus. This was from their frustration with computer piracy. This first virus was a boot sector virus called Brain. Sine then an entire counter-culture industry of virus creation and distribution emerged, […]

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