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...Microsoft Word. There are viruses for Macintoshes, Windows and Unix machines, as well as viruses for Palm Pilots and other hand-held computers. In a way oddly analogous to nuclear weapons, a virus' potential for damage is measured by its payload--exactly what it does--and its distribution. The ILOVEYOU virus, for example, was very dangerous because it was easily communicable through e-mail and caused an enormous amount of damage once it was on a machine...
...trojans have been spreading across the Internet and the campus with ever-increasing speed, especially as e-mail becomes the default method of communication. Even worse, each generation of virus seems to be causing an increasing amount of damage in more and more places across the world. The ILOVEYOU virus that gained so much notoriety this summer, for example, caused an estimated $7 billion in damages and struck from Manila to Missouri. (To put that in perspective, if you were given a dollar every second for 100 years, you wouldn't have half the amount of damages caused by this...
...ILOVEYOU virus, as well as the MTX.gen file that is currently causing a great deal of grief on this campus, represent a new step in the evolution of computer parasites. These programs are known as worms, programs that insidiously spread from one computer to another with very little human intervention. The ILOVEYOU virus stole passwords and credit card numbers; the MTX virus, on the other hand, destroys files and prevents a user from accessing certain websites. Even more dangerous than such worms, possibly, are Trojans. These virus-type programs allow someone else access to your computer. Once they're loaded...
...only real concern was the way ActiveShield, McAfee's antivirus applet, handled infected e-mail. As a test, I sent myself a live virus--it was iloveyou, which lived benignly on my Macintosh (a platform, by the way, that doesn't suffer nearly as badly from viruses as the PC world does). Disturbingly, my PC was more than happy to accept the poisoned e-mail. It even let me read the message. I'm told that had I actually clicked on the infected attached file to view it, ActiveShield would have intervened and caught the bug. A better...
Laroux arrives as an unassuming Microsoft Excel file known as a macro. Ethan, Marker, Class and Footer hide inside Microsoft Word macros. Happy, Form and Chernobyl work on Windows, while big-league heavies like Explore.zip (not to mention year 2000 contenders Kakworm, Bubbleboy and, of course, ILoveYou) head straight for Microsoft Outlook Express...