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    How do people get viruses, trojans, worms, etc.?

    I was just wondering how people get malware, viruses, trojans, worms, rootkits, and other bad stuff on their computers. Also knowing this will help not only me, but others to try avoiding these practices. Thanks in advance.
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    This could be a long thread, Your best bet is a site like this [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm[/url] and look up each term.

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    There is not only one way to get into your computer. There are several ways all such stuff enters into your computer. Some of them are like through Internet, Flash drive, application installation and many more.
    Last edited by gordo; 05-29-2010 at 06:31 AM.

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    Viruses are EASY to make, with little programming knowledge. I can make one in as little as 5 minutes and it would not be detected by any modern virus detector. The hard part is GETTING IT DISTRIBUTED. The hardest way (but most commonly successful) is using an Internet Explorer security hole, of which you usually have to find yourself. The other way is by getting the user to download it thinking that it is a legitimate file. EVEN EXPERIENCED COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS download these types of files.

    NOW, there is one type of virus that (to my belief) would even get past a Virtual Machine running an operating system. That would be an MBR virus. There is a new strain that could successfully attack Windows from the outside, running arbitrary code once logged in. I was infected with this type of virus while using a copy of BartPE and it managed to cross-over to my Windows XP installation on my HD from an MBR. I now need to buy an external harddrive in order to backup my *20GB of data in order to format to get rid of the virus in the boot record.

    However, most people don’t realize this but using a bit of creativity there is a way to REPAIR ANY COMPUTER infected with a virus using BartPE with customized programming. That is actually what I was working on before I got infected, ironically enough. Good thing, I guess because before that I never knew it was possible for an MBR virus to run arbitrary code in that manner. After research, I found that a company created and released their source code for an example of the method (the same one used), knowing that it could and probably would be used for virus purposes. Now if Microsoft made a way for the MBR to be LOCKED (un-editable) while in Windows (because no legitimate program would change it) then this sort of thing wouldn’t happen.. Well, I guess Microsoft can’t account for everything, but for their mistakes they do keep alot of guys like me in the business LOL, or at least keep up busy!
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    There are many sources from where you can get virus or spywares. These are CD, pendrive, internet and any other ways with which your system get contact to outside world..
    Last edited by gordo; 06-20-2010 at 10:55 AM.

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    Virus are very easy to create with little bit codes of programming. Many way to get virus into computer. Some of the virus are get from Internet, CD's. And mostly it is coming from pen-drives and such kind of applications of flash.
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