Network Security: An MPE/iX Overview

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GENERAL NETWORKING
• Specific types of Network attacks and solutions
– Viruses
• String of computer code that attaches to other programs and
replicates
– File infectors – Oldest type of virus, now mostly extinct
– Boot-sector viruses – Reside on the boot portion of a disk. Also mostly
extinct
– Macro viruses – Written in a scripting language and affects data files, not
programs. Future of viruses.
• No absolute cure for viruses
– Antivirus programs work, but need continual updating.
– Virus makers depend on laziness of users to let virus defs get out of date.