Introduction
This research paper targets to find the factors which leads the virus attacks among personal computer users. Today’s society has seen a dramatic increase in the use of computers. As a result users of personal computer today need to have a comprehensive virus protection mechanisms to face the growing threats of computer viruses. Virus attacks on computer are more harmful that shows up more damage to the computer. It is important to analyze the actions that a virus performs in one’s system and also the activities that are possible to occur over time. This helps in protecting our PC with needful security mechanisms to safeguard the secure information. The purpose of this research paper is to introduce to the reader the threats that the computer viruses can create and provide guidelines on how individuals can protect themselves against these viruses. Nowadays many computer viruses are designed to self-replicate and self-install over a very short period of time. They come encoded with specific instructions to destroy and advance through its host computer, and can affect a multitude of programs and applications very quickly.
Recognizing the symptoms of a computer virus can help to successfully remove it from the infected computer as quickly as possible; the sooner this is completed, the easier it will be to recover any documents or programs that may be damaged, and prevent the virus from further spreading. After identification of typical factors which leads to computer virus attacks the possible solutions are put forwarded to PC users to surmount this virus attacks and for their future improvement in computer usage.
Types and Ways of Computer Virus Attacks
Boot Sector Virus: These types of viruses effect on the disk and the hard drive that holds small section referred as the sectors. Once the boot sector is attacked they become infected when you reboot the system with the infected diskette it spreads through the hard drive.
Multipartite viruses: It is a form of hybrid boot sector program virus that affects the programming files.
While the infected program is activated it hits the boot record. When the system is restarted it subsequently passes on the infection to other local drive in to computer scattering on the virus to the other programming files instantly.
Macro viruses: infects a Microsoft Word or similar application and causes a sequence of actions to be A. Ilmudeen(1) The Impact of Computer Virus Attacks and Its Preventive Mechanisms among Personal Computer (PC) Users
(1) MIS Unit, Department of Accountancy & Finance, Faculty of Management and Commerce, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Oluvil, Sri Lanka.(email:
[email protected]) Proceedings of the Third International Symposium,
SEUSL: 6-7 July 2013, Oluvil, Sri Lanka
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