How to Create a Harmless Virus Simulation for Learning

How to Create a Harmless Virus Simulation for Learning is a useful project for beginners who want to understand how computer virus warnings and infection simulations work. You do not need to create a real virus or damage a computer to learn the basic concepts of malware behaviour. A harmless simulation can display a fake

How to protect PC from autorun.inf Virus

Every computer users know about the word Virus. Viruses can damage your important data in your computer. We use antivirus to protect our computer from viruses, but antivirus has a limitation to identify viruses.     Mostly viruses come to PC through Internet, Pen-drive and Floppy (Nowadays most of the people are not using floppy). And we

What is a Trojan Horse ???

What is a Trojan ? “A Trojan Horse, or Trojan, is a term used to describe malware that appears, to the user, to perform a desirable function but, in fact, facilitates unauthorized access to the user’s computer system”. – Wikipedia “A Trojan horse is an apparently useful program containing hidden functions that can exploit the

What is a Computer Virus ?

What is a Computer Virus ? A potentially damaging computer programme capable of reproducing itself causing great harm to files or other programs without permission or knowledge of the user. Types of viruses :- The different types of viruses are as follows- 1) Boot Sector Virus :- Boot sector viruses infect either the master boot

Is your antivirus working perfect ?

  This trick will let you detect whether your antivirus software is working or is just a waste. We will create a file which every antivirus sofware will detect as virus but dont worry it is harmless and will not harm your computer. First open Notepad and copy below code into it. X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*  Save the file as virus.exe