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Macro Virus

August 31, 2009 by admin  
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What is a Macro Virus
A Macro is an instruction that carries out program commands automatically. Programs like Word Processing, Spreadsheet and slide presentation make use of macros. If a user unwittingly runs a macro virus, it can then copy itself into that applications start-up file. The computer is now infected. Meaning any document on [...]

Virus, information on hackers, worms, trojans, portscanning

August 31, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Computer

An Introduction to Viruses
According to legend the Amjad brothers of Pakistan who ran a computer shop in the mid-eighties wrote the first computer virus. This was from their frustration with computer piracy. This first virus was a boot sector virus called Brain. Sine then an entire counter-culture industry of virus creation and distribution [...]

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