Computer virus celebrates 26th birthday

Virus, one of the most infamous aspects of both Web and personal computers, known in the 26th year.

Happy birthday virus?

It was 1983 when the first virus, which was officially born in the provision of a fundamental change in computer security. Fred Cohen, a graduate student at the University of Southern California, showed a computer virus during a safety seminar Lehign University of Pennsylvania. Cohen, the self-replicating program compared to the virus with their advisor, Len Adleman, coining the term virus.

Cohen malware is not the first of its kind. Other computer scientists have also theorized self-replicating program that can spread from computer to computer. Rich Skrenta - 15-year-old programmer from Pennsylvania beat Cohen wrote Elk Cloner program. This is a self-replicating virus infecting boot sectors Apple II computer with a floppy disk.

In 1986, two Pakistani brothers wrote "Brain" virus designed to infect only computers running pirated copies of IBM monitoring heart. The virus claimed that their names and phone numbers of his copyright for people to contact them on the vaccine if their PC is infected.

In 1988, the first widely propagating worm, called Morris worm moved the Robert Tappan Morris, Jr., a graduate student from Cornell University and son of a scientist of the National Security Agency Director, spread one thousand machines worldwide. He was the first person sentenced for computer fraud and abuse of the law in 1986.

In 1999, L. David Smith wrote the Melissa virus infected e-mail programs by clogging them with infected e-mails since the worm. This is the first successful mass-mailing worm. In 2000, the Love Bug virus was created by a student from the Philippines. Spread around the world - Hong Kong, Europe and the United States, causing billions in damages and affected by the Pentagon, CIA and the British Parliament. Writer is to escape prosecution because the Philippines is a computer-crime law in this period.

Virus grows and new threats come every year. Malware writers used to do annoying tricks on the computer to get your attention, but their motives now changed. Nowadays, they do that malware infecting your computer, stealing data and online money from a bank account or your system in one of the popular spam-sewing botnets.

Viruses come a long way to celebrate the 26th year. Many viruses are expressed, and the beat was discovered in the future. Contact Techie Now for your computer protection. We provide services in PC support - remove viruses and spyware, optimize performance, installation and configuration, and general repairs. Now protect Techie will keep your computer clean and virus-free.

Prevx protecting millions of users in the UK Fraud

Security vendor Prevx has signed an agreement with the CPP, a major provider of life support to the software Prevx 3.0.5, complete with new technology SafeOnline, his identity protection products. As a result, approximately one million residents of the United Kingdom, who have signed up to protect the identity CPP Alert (IPA) policies will benefit from the protection of Prevx free.

Prevx is a supplier of security software, based in the UK. Flaghsip products, Prevx 3.0.5, the anti-malware programs, also known for its advanced heuristic detection and removal capabilities of rootkits. Moreover, a negligible impact on resources software system, resulting from its use cloud-based technology, is another strong selling point.

In early November, the security company has launched a new product called SafeOnline Prevx, so that the protection and security of online transactions browsing session. The low level parts of the system as a kernel driver allows programs to thwart phishing or-man-in-browser attacks by Trojan horses and other malware to steal banking information.

Prevx SafeOnline can install and operate independently or as part of the Prevx 3.0.5, which can run alone, along with other security software without any problems. By default, the software defense browsing all sessions HTTPS protocol, but the user can specify a specific Web page. Software also prevents malware from the information entered in the documents obtained on any web page.

Agreement with the CPP is the first step in the company's partnership with financial institutions to share technologies to their customers. CPP provides assistance, services, identity protection, and insurance card. It has approximately 10 million customers and 280 business partners throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

"Each individual users with the CPP Identity Protection Alert product (IPA) as part of their relationship with business or financial institutions may download Prevx 3.0.5 (including Prevx SafeOnline) as part of the product from the CPP," said spokesman Prevx writes in an e-mail from United Computer. You deal only applies to the CPP customer base in the UK, but the company is in talks to extend it. "Prevx is in negotiations with the CPP in all other countries, where [CPP] works," said the representative.

New Prevx SafeOnline was released, vulnerability management company called freedom is contracted to test them against various threats to your computer. "Prevx SafeOnline successfully combating modern Trojan horses, and a commission from thieves targeting immunity username, password and other information during installation," the company concluded in its report.