CEH v12 Certified Ethical Hacker Study Guide with 750 Practice Test Questions

Chapter 8Malware

THE FOLLOWING CEH EXAM TOPICS ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

• Malware operations
• Antivirus systems and programs

Malware is big business. Not only are there hundreds of millions of malware families and variants in the world and an unknown number of programmers developing that malware, but there are also at least dozens of companies developing anti‐malware solutions. The developers who are working on writing malware are getting paid to write the software, anticipate selling off the malware, or expect to make money from the ...