Computer Viruses

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is possible to use the replication mechanism of for some useful and beneficial purposes. In this paper I will examine the question of why computer users consider to be a bad thing and why they reject the idea of having a computer virus serve a good purpose. I will also explore the military point of view with regard to . This paper is based in large part on a research paper by Vesselin Bontchev from the University of Hamburg.
The term �computer virus� is usually associated with some mean, little program that is produced to serve only one purpose; to cause damage to other computers and destroy the information on them. are simply small computer programs that have as their sole aim to do harm (Goldsborough, 1998, p32). The public�s understanding of this term is very limited and their lack of information leads to incorrect assumptions. There are many other dangerous programs that are not but are equally destructive to a computer system. Such programs are known as logic bombs, trojan ...

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virus as a self replicating program that can infect other programs by modifying them or their environment so that a call to a program is actually a call to an evolved copy of the program to which the virus has attached itself, thus having the property of being self replicating. This definition does not specify that a computer virus is a malicious program. The important distinction is that a program that does not self replicate is not considered as a virus whether malicious or not. This implies that maliciousness is not a property for which a computer program can be called a virus. A computer virus is however, a self replicating computer program that can sometimes be potentially ...

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