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Lately I have become more aware of computer viruses, my friends are encountering them, they’re all over the news and I’ve come across tutorials on how to send a virus (not deliberately). I don’t understand why people get off on sending other people viruses, you could seriously ruin they’re work and cost them a lot of money if you do some real damage. If you want revenge on someone, deal with them in the real world!
Doing my daily BBC surfing I found out that there are over 1MILLION different computer viruses in circulation right now. Symantec have stated that most of these viruses have been made in the last year and says that “the growth in malicious code down to the increasingly professional digital criminal underground”. So people are being paid to destroy other peoples computers, I understand that someones always going to want to destroy someone else but why do they have to hurt all the other people? I’ve had virus problems before and I know it wasn’t because a criminal mastermind had a vendetta against me. (Me and The Godfather already sorted out our issues, and I’m sure he’s not the kind of guy to attack me with a virus). So why are we targetted? Do computer techies get their rocks off by knowing that they’ve damaged someones computer? They wouldn’t like it if we destroyed theirs. Can anyone tell me why people send out viruses for no reason?
There was an interesting take on computer Viruses in the paper the other day. MIT Media Lab’s grad student Alex Dragulescu turned famous viruses into Art. He used algorithms to find recurring patterns in the source code of viruses and used this to Visualize the viruses. To visualize the viruses he simply colour-coded the codes, set a virtual position camera and added some causal lighting effects.
Trojan Gentil3 MyDoom Virus
Perhaps by visualizing them people will realise that Virus do exist and they wont go away. So if you’re reading this, I suggest doing a virus scan right now and reading up on your viruses as you never know when you could be attacked.
If you don’t know how to prevent yourself from getting a virus or other computer diseases then go to Computer Penguin, a new website/blog by a highly experienced technician. He offers up knowledge of viruses and malware such as the Trojan Horse, links you to programs that will stop viruses and also gives you technical knowledge of computers.
If any of you have encountered a nasty virus, how did you get it? and what did you do to get rid of it?
