Hackers Can Send A Virus To A Computer and Cause Major Disruption
The words computer viruses are all terms that describe what is called malware. It can include viruses, Trojan horses, worms and more. The objective of the computer viruses is to disrupt some process running by the computer or to use the computer to disrupt other computers.
There is a remote that can control your phone service, television service, and your own personal computer service as well. Your car may even run by a computer system. The old ones don't, but they will be obsolete eventually and no longer used.
Many computers are armed with antivirus software and firewalls to protect them from contracting the many viruses that are floating around in cyberspace. Sometimes, the malicious content disguised as a virus can do some serious damage if it is allowed to get past those protective barriers.
There was a warning, so the people who protect the computers were looking for certain things to avert a major catastrophe.
Direct action viruses will start infecting a computer when it is booted up. It gets in the system and replicates itself causing all kinds of mayhem from the root directory of the hard disk. A DDoS, or Directory of Service Virus was unleashed in South Korea and caused all kinds of chaos in which many computers tried to gain access to one particular site and caused it to slow down immensely by overwhelming its server.
That type of virus can be extremely aggravating to the owners of the sites and those trying to use them. A polymorphic virus is extremely hard to get rid of because it is encrypted, which means that it replicates itself, but the antivirus software protection can't locate it because it changes, or morphs, so its code changes all of the time.
Banking systems, government systems and transportation systems would be primary targets for cyber-terrorists who want to cripple an economy or cause mass confusion which gives them a chance to move in on a target. The beginning of such chaos could begin with something as simple as a virus.
Luckily, there are also people that spend much of their time combating these viruses as they are spread or about to be spread. Hopefully, they will triumph and put an end to the evil viruses.
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