Assignment task
Use your favorite search engine to find details about (1)virus/piece of malware. Upload an MS Word or .PDF document thatsummarizes each of the following
Item 1: Introduction - What is meant bymalware/viruses? What is their history? Are malware and/or virusesrecent developments in computer technology or have they been aroundfor a while? What piece of malware/virus are choosing to writeabout and why? Â
Item 2: Virus/Malware details:
- Name of malware/virus
- When and where was this virus/malware first discovered?
- How prevalent is this virus/malware? Is it regionalized bygeography or business sector? Is it worldwide? How manycomputers/victims has it claimed?
- What has been the impact of this particular virus/malware? Hasit damaged computers/data? Has it caused the loss of revenue orreputation? Has it physically damaged anything?
- Description of the virus/malware:
What specifically does the virus/malware do? How does it infecttargets? What does it do once it infects a host? Does it changeregistry settings, does it leave behind malicious code, etc...? Isit destructive? If so how?
Item 3 - Malware/Virus removal - How effectiveis software in removing it? What has to be done to remove it? Whatcan be done to prevent being impacted by it?
Example of what I am looking for: Leadinganti-virus/malware products such as areeffective in removing the malicious .DLL, They do this by firstconfiguring Internet Explorer to not run the .DLL and then deletingthe malicious .DLL itself.
