Week 4 - Section 2

Virus – I was downloading songs and movie from a P2P program few years ago, and accidently downloaded a virus data which automatically deleting all my flies one by one.
Ended up have to change a new hard drive, and every since that happened, I always denied the unknown file which comes out from my anti-virus program warning.

Trojan horse – I used to download a lot of new programs from www.download.com. Most of the un-popular programs always have Trojan horse, which made readme.exe automatically install.
I stopped trying un-popular programs.

Back door – Friend of mine got heck in her computer and the attacker turned on her webcam.
There has been few same cases happened. Police tell user to block their webcam with a piece of paper.

Worm – Few years ago, pop out was the most popular worm from a lot of websites, especially pornography, and almost every single porn site has warm.
All the new explores has block pop out programs, which makes pop out isn’t a treat anymore.


A new virus is relying on some old tricks to infect Windows Mobile users. The so-called 'companion virus' attack uses a method of assuming the identity of an existing file and moving the old file to a different location. The appearance of this new virus for Windows Mobile phones may mark a change from for-profit Trojans and spyware to the more experimental form of viruses.

This virus will damage most of the business uses mobile phone data, lose information, delay of meetings, and attackers can also steal privet database.


A virus detection chip has created for detect virus in the mobile phone, and blocking virus. It is installed in most of the recent phones now, when users go online with their phones, they will get lower ricks of getting virus.

University of Ballarat must has a information secure team to implement controls to limit damage and prepare contingency plans for continued operations.