...kinds of computer viruses?

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Answer by Anne
Submitted on 4/11/2006
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there are 2 kinds of virus: stealth virus, polymorphic virus. A stealth virus is one that, while "active", hides the modifications it has made to files or boot records. This is usually achieved by monitoring the system functions used to read files or sectors from storage media and forging the results of calls to such functions. This means programs that try to read infected files or sectors see the original, uninfected form instead of the actual, infected form. Thus the virus's modifications may go undetected by antivirus programs. However, in order to do this, the virus must be resident in memory when the antivirus program is executed and an antivirus program may detect this. While A polymorphic virus is one that produces varied but operational copies of itself. These strategies have been employed in the hope that virus scanners will not be able to detect all instances of the virus.

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what are the kinds of computer viruses?

Answer by PENDELTON
Submitted on 7/13/2004
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there is namy more viruses out there than those 2

Answer by icamon
Submitted on 7/2/2005
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Answer by MV
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The kinds of computer viruses are the Boot, System and the General Executable Program . But the most common viruses are the C Brain, Pentagon, Microbe, Italian Bouncing Ball, Israeli, Lehigh, Stoned Mega Boot Record, Hydra, Saturday the 14th, Disk Killer and the slug.

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