CONTENTS

• What is Virus ?
• Types of computer viruses.
• How Does a Computer Get a
Virus?
• Symptoms of a computer
virus.
• Some new Computer
Viruses.
• Worms.
• How a virus spread via
network ?
• Trojan Horse.
• Difference Between a Virus,
Worm and Trojan Horse.
 What is Virus ?
“A virus is a program
or piece of code that
is loaded onto your
computer without your
knowledge and runs
against your wishes.”
Types of computer viruses
Boot viruses
Program viruses
Multipartite viruses
Stealth viruses
Polymorphic viruses

Macro viruses
 How Does a Computer Get a Virus?

• On downloading files
from the Internet.
• On opening an e-mail
attachment.
• On copying programs
or files from any other
infected computer.
 Symptoms of a computer virus
• The computer runs slower than
usual.
• The computer crashes, and then
it restarts every few minutes.
• Applications on the computer do
not work correctly.
• Disks or disk drives are
inaccessible.
• You see unusual error
messages.
• An antivirus program cannot be
installed on the computer, or the
antivirus program will not run.
• New icons appear on the
desktop that you did not put.
 Some new Computer Viruses
• OPRAH WINFREY
VIRUS
• RIGHT TO LIFE
VIRUS
• MARIO CUOMO
VIRUS
• TED TURNER VIRUS
 Worms
These viruses spread
via computer
networks. It is self
replicating computer
program.
How a virus spread via network ?
 Trojan Horse
A Trojan virus is one
that opens your
computer up to
malicious users
allowing them to read
your files.
Difference Between a Virus, Worm
and Trojan Horse
• Virus cannot replicate themselves but worm and trojan
can do that.
• A virus cannot be spread without a human action such
as running an infected file or program but worm and
trojan have the capabilities to spread themselves
automatically from computer to computer through
network connetion.
• A virus do not consume system memory but worm
consumes too much system memory and network
bandwidth because of their copying nature.
• Trojans are used by malicious users to access your
computer information but viruses and worms can’t do so,
they simply infect your computer.