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 SB> Could anyone help me???
yes....
 SB> I am doing an assignment for school and I have to do
 SB> research on Viruses.. Some questions are :-
 SB> : How do they effect computer systems?
they replicate, mainly... this slows down the computer (to a small
degree) and takes up space (to a larger degree) and introduces the risk
of a system crash (as viruses are not coded very well in general and
tend to have bugs)...
optional effects are destruction of data or making the data
inaccessable, aswell as the possibility of losing some of your data to
an outside party due to the fact that your security has been breached
(rare)...
 SB> : How are they made? (what programs)
i read a message from frisk the other day (frisk makes an anti-virus
program called fprot) where he said about 97% of pc viruses are made in
assembly language...
assembly language is of course a programming language, the virus writers
tend to prefer it because of the low level access they get and the small
code size they can achieve...
 SB> : How many viruses are there in total?
in the ibm pc/compatible world there are nearly 12,000 (if not more by
now)
 SB> If you could help me on these questions please write back,
 SB> or if you know of a good book on them please give me the name
 SB> of it..
as it so happens i do NOT know of any good book on this subject, the
best way to learn the facts is to get it from the horses mouths...
... i miss the blinking leds on my external modem...
                   
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