- Industry: Software
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This type of virus loads into memory and remains inactive until a trigger event. When the event occurs, the virus activates, either infecting a file or disk, or causing other consequences. All boot viruses are resident viruses.
Industry:Internet
DLLs that utilize Winsock APIs to insert themselves into the TCP/IP stack. Namespace providers redirect traffic from one site to an intermediary site.
Industry:Internet
A type of compressed file capable of extract itself when run. Most large files transferred across the Internet are compressed to save disk space and reduce transfer times. A self-extracting program can extract a virus or Trojan.
Industry:Internet
A measure of bandwidth on mediums such as telephone lines, cable lines, or optical fibers.
Industry:Internet
Areas on diskettes or hard disks that contain some of the first instructions executed by a PC as it boots. Boot records load and execute to load the operating system. Once boot records are infected by a virus, the records will be changed to include a copy of the virus. When the PC boots, the virus program runs and typically installs itself in memory before loading the operating system.
Industry:Internet
Also known as a sparse virus, a type of virus that only infects files when certain conditions are met. Examples include viruses that infect files only on their 10th execution or viruses that target files with a maximum size of 128 KB. These viruses use the conditions to infect less often and therefore avoid detection.
Industry:Internet
EICAR is the organization that developed a string of characters used to test anti-virus software installation and operation.
Industry:Internet
A new or newly varied threat for which a signature or mitigation is not yet available. Behavioral detection attempts to identify these threats based on patterns of suspicious activity.
Industry:Internet
Converts a high-level program into a machine language program. A compiler program helps accomplish this conversion and discovers syntax errors when a script is being compiled.
Industry:Internet
