Chapter 9
Defending Against Virus Attacks
Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter and completing the exercises, you will be able to do the following:
Explain how virus attacks work.
Explain how viruses spread.
Distinguish between different types of virus attacks.
Employ virus scanners to detect viruses.
Formulate an appropriate strategy to defend against virus attacks.
Introduction
Chapter 2, “Types of Attacks,” introduced virus attacks, and Chapter 8, “Operating System Hardening,” gave more details. In this chapter you will learn more about how virus attacks work and learn how to defend against a virus attack.
One thing already pointed out is that the most prevalent danger on the Internet is the computer virus or worm. This is due ...
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