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12:56 PM by Shubham Mittal · 0

New Hampshire Business Review

Companies are hit on average with 113 virus infections every month for every 1,000 PCs they own, according to an ICSA Labs survey.

How does a business guard against this threat? First, it’s helpful to understand what a computer virus is. A good definition is offered by Amer Neely in “Virus Protection Rx for Your PC”: A virus is a program that attaches itself to other programs and/or disks and makes copies of itself whenever it can. It is vandalism by computer. Most viruses cause damage, either by design or accident; others merely become a nuisance by putting messages on your screen.

The important thing to remember is that someone wrote the program on purpose. Viruses do not appear out of thin air or by accident. In all cases, you will have to scan your hard disk and all your external disks and remove the culprit.

Viruses attach themselves to other files that are “executable.” This means any file that can be loaded into your computer’s memory and “run.” Files ending in .exe, .com, .sys, .dll and .ovr are some common PC extensions for executable files. Image files (.jpg; .gif) are not good hosts for a virus, since they are not executable. Audio files and video files are other “safe” types. A compressed file, such as .zip, by itself is not dangerous, but it may contain an executable file, which carries a virus. If this file is extracted and run, the virus will infect your system.

Basic virus protection

Some common symptoms that could indicate your system is “infected” by a virus are:
• Unusual messages or displays on your monitor

• Unusual sounds or music played at random times

• A changed file name

• Missing programs or files

• The creation of unknown programs or files

• Files that become corrupted or suddenly stop working properly

• E-mails sent out to people on your mailing list or contact list without your knowledge

Don’t wait until you have these symptoms to take action. The consequences could be alarming. Here are some basic tips that you can use immediately to start the fight against harmful computer viruses:

• Keep up to date with critical software patches. The most damaging viruses in recent years have all been spread through software vulnerabilities that were patched at least months, and often years, before the virus was unleashed.

• Don’t open attachments that you did not expect to receive, especially if the person has not signed his or her name inside the message — and do not forward them.

• Delete all messages from unknown origins without reading them.

• Buy a virus protection program and keep it up to date. New viruses are detected and created daily and you must continue to update this software. Download the anti-virus update on a weekly basis.

• Use the latest versions of Web browsers. Virus writers are ingenious in a twisted way. They are always coming up with new attacks, oftentimes exploiting weaknesses in commonly used software. Software developers play a cat-and-mouse game, constantly trying to patch the holes with software upgrades and service releases.

• Set your security settings on “medium” or “high” for your e-mail reader and browser.

• Make sure you enforce a rigid backup schedule. If all of the above methods fail you and your data is gone, you must have a backup to save the day.

Keep in mind that these suggestions are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to protecting your business from the serious threat of computer viruses. Virus protection should be an integral part of IT planning. Since it can be very complex, it should be handled by knowledgeable, highly trained IT professionals.

4:55 AM by Shubham Mittal · 0

Computer Virus Strikes Facebook Users-Blair Simmons

A new version of an old computer virus is making the rounds again on social networking sites.

This time, it's hitting Facebook users and locking up their entire PC system.

The virus has the ability to get hold of every file on your computer, from y our email address book to your banking information, all by making one single click.

It's called the Koobface virus, and Glenn Clute says it's been circulating since 2008.

This is actually the 28th variant of the same virus, and it's extremely infectious.

Computer specialist Glenn Clute says, "It's almost like anti-virus programs look at it as like a program that's installing - so the anti-virus programs seem to let it go and from that point on it takes over the system and can even turn off some anti-virus and disable them."

Since it's been around, Clute sees up to a dozen cases of the virus a week, like John Clampitt's computer.

Clampitt says, "I've had a lot of little viruses over the years, but never anything quite like this. It shut my entire system down.'

Here's how it happened to Clampitt- a friend sent him a video on Facebook that he just couldn't resist checking out.

Clampitt says, "I received an email that had a "hilarious video" that i was a part of - so I couldn't help the temptation."

But when he clicked on it, it wouldn't open, and locked up his entire system.

Clampitt says, "The most scary was the fear of having lost everything in my computer because I've never had a major virus... very alarming."

Clute says once you've clicked on the fatal link, the virus basically turns your computer into a zombie... infecting all of your files, recording every keystroke, and even gaining remote access to your computer.

So it infects your files, then spreads to your Facebook friends, filling their inboxes with the same enticing video message.

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