Viruses and Malware

Our Government and the Antivirus Companies are reporting that on an average day up to 30,000 pieces of bad script hit the net each day. Those are lines of script that are meant to harm innocent people and there computer systems. The question that you need to ask yourself or your It Professional is Are you prepared?

I want to preface this statement with this. There is no one on the planet that can guarantee that they can keep everything out. If any one tells you any different they are just lying to you. All we can do for you honestly is limit the damage if something does get in. Then get you and your company back up and running in less time than most of our competitors.

Line One Technologies goes above and beyond to keep your computers, networks and data safe by providing you with the best end to end protection on the market today. Our systems look at every thing coming in and going out of your networks. We can even monitor your hardware in your networks for potential pending mechanical failures as well. Therefore we can usually get a jump on repairing problems before they become problems.

Viruses and Malware are two completely different things all together.

Viruses

Not to be confused with Malware.

A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself^[1] and infect a computer. The term "virus" is also commonly but erroneously used to refer to other types of malware, including but not limited to adware and spyware programs that do not have the reproductive ability. A true virus can spread from one computer to another (in some form of executable code) when its host is taken to the target computer; for instance because a user sent it over a network or the Internet, or carried it on a removable medium such as a floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB drive.^[2]

Viruses can increase their chances of spreading to other computers by infecting files on a network file system or a file system that is accessed by another computer.^[3][4]

As stated above, the term "computer virus" is sometimes used as a catch-all phrase to include all types of malware, even those that do not have the reproductive ability.

Malware includes computer viruses, computer worms, Trojan horses, most rootkits, spyware, dishonest adware and other malicious and unwanted software, including true viruses. Viruses are sometimes confused with worms and Trojan horses, which are technically different. A worm can exploit security vulnerabilities to spread itself automatically to other computers through networks, while a Trojan horse is a program that appears harmless but hides malicious functions. Worms and Trojan horses, like viruses, may harm a computer system's data or performance. Some viruses and other malware have symptoms noticeable to the computer user, but many are surreptitious or simply do nothing to call attention to, themselves at all. Then some viruses do nothing beyond reproducing themselves.

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Ok with all of that said most viruses are pretty stupid, although some viruses can be quite devastating to your computers. Most of them are primarily programmed to do just a couple of things to your machines, replicate and then send themselves out on their own to wreak havoc on as many machines as possible.

Viruses generally get into your machine, do as much damage as possible, and then head straight for your mail box. From there it tries to send itself out to all of your friends because, misery loves company, not to mention that a lot of the programmers of virus and malware receive money for each machine they take down or control. This is usually done by a blind program. It has no one steering it so to speak. There are other ways that viruses get spread as well but as the fight goes on the antivirus guys are becoming so effective at preventing the email route that the bad guys are now being forced to find alternative ways to spread themselves.

Malware

Malware on the other hand is as smart as it can be and is getting smarter with each and every day that goes by. This is how I explain in plain English what happens with malware. One of the bugs get into your computer, then it invites seven of its friends over and they all sit down and play a game of poker in your machine. In some cases they can sit in there for months with out you knowing anything about them they are just biding their time gathering information to be used against you later, but you still may not know that their there. Then all of a sudden; triggered by nothing that you can identify, one of them gets up from the table and phones home and says Hi dad were here. What do you want us to do now?

The programmer that designed them then sits back down at his desk and proceeds to tell them what to do. Weather it is to data mine your machine for your bank account numbers passwords or turns your machine into a zombie. He can just as easily crash your machine completely it is solely his decision and by then there is little you personally can do about it.

That’s why it is so important for you to protect yourselves before you becoming infected.

Our government and the Antivirus Companies are reporting that on an average day up to 30,000 pieces of bad script hit the net each day. Those are lines of script that are meant to harm innocent people and their computer systems and networks. Are you Prepared?

Is the company to do that for you. We have no problem coming in after the damage has been done and do a virus repair and or removal the reality is though is that it is far cheaper to get us in before hand and limit the damage. That is what we do best security prevention and maintenance.

Malware, short for malicious software, is software designed to secretly access a computer system without the owner's informed consent. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.^[1]

Software is considered to be malware based on the perceived intent of the creator rather than any particular features. Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, dishonest adware, scareware, crimeware, most rootkits, and other malicious and unwanted software or program. In law, malware is sometimes known as a computer contaminant, for instance in the legal codes of several U. S. states, including California and West Virginia.^[2][3]

Preliminary results from Symantec published in 2008 suggested that "the release rate of malicious code and other unwanted programs may be exceeding that of legitimate software applications."^[4] According to F-Secure, "As much malware [was] produced in 2007 as in the previous 20 years altogether."^[5] Malware's most common pathway from criminals to users is through the Internet: primarily by e-mail and the World Wide Web.^[6]

The prevalence of malware as a vehicle for organized Internet crime, along with the general inability of traditional anti-malware protection platforms (products) to protect against the continuous stream of unique and newly produced malware, has seen the adoption of a new mindset for businesses operating on the Internet: the acknowledgment that some sizable percentage of Internet customers will always be infected for some reason or another, and that they need to continue doing business with infected customers. The result is a greater emphasis on back-office systems designed to spot fraudulent activities associated with advanced malware operating on customers' computers.^[7]

On March 29, 2010, Symantec Corporation named Shaoxing, China, as the world's malware capital.^[8]

Malware is not the same as defective software, that is, software that has a legitimate purpose but contains harmful bugs. Sometimes, malware is disguised as genuine software, and may come from an official site. Therefore, some security programs, such as McAfee may call malware "potentially unwanted programs" or "PUP". Though a computer virus is malware that can reproduce itself, the term is often used erroneously to refer to the entire category. Malware is sometimes called scumware.

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I want to preface this statement with this. There is no one on the planet that can guarantee that they can keep everything out. If any one tells you any different they are just lying to you. All we can do for you honestly, is limit the damage. Then if something does get in. We can get you and your company back up and running in less time than most of our competitors.

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