Virus in RFID

VIRUS THAT HAS INFECTED MAN:

There has been a recent attack on a RFID chip implanted into Dr Mark Gasson’s left wrist by a virus. He gave an interview to BBC world news about the same and its effects.

There are many things we can do with a RFID chip. We can communicate with our mobile phone, we can gain access to our organization we work for and so on. If the chip we use to get access to the machines gets infected there are chances that the machines we show the RFID chip will get infected as well like mainstream computers.

An RFID chip means Radio Frequency Identity which will be embedded into human body to access like it is being done to animals. It is going to be a revolution in future; everyone will be having a RFID chip with all their personal details fed in to it. It may replace SSID to have advanced tracking system.

The virus that has infected the chip that Dr Mark Gasson has implanted into his hand is infecting all the machines that he is accessing using that. BBC news asked how well they infect the devices or computers that he accesses. Medical implants are prone to viruses as the implanting technology has developed to a point where they are capable of communicating, storing, and manipulating data. So technology has to keep pace with the new viruses that are being invented daily and should secure themselves from viruses.

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Bom Samado Worm

Are you having GOOD SATURDAY WORM:

Is your orkut safe? Did your friends complain about scraps that are being sent to them with a name Bom Sabado, which means GOOD SATURDAY in Portuguese, that they are receiving regularly from your account? If you are experiencing this issue this means your Orkut account is being infected with this severe virus/worm. It has attacked the cross site scripting of the orkut site and has spread its presence.

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ANDROID FAKE PLAYER-VIRUS

Android Fake Player:

A new virus was found with the phones using Android operating system, that is called Trojan SMS . This virus works by sending a premium SMS, which is very dangerous, once received corrupts the entire phone. Application of this virus is about 13 KB and will be active when the user is running the media player application. When running this file users will be approved or not activated when the Trojans has just started to attack.

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Installing Anti-Virus

Different Anti-Virus companies Compatible with Win7

An anti-virus will have a set-up file that will install the program. Before we install it we will have to check many things that need to be unchecked, disabled or enabled. Even uninstalling have to be done using some tools else it will not be removed completely and it will be there in registry which creates some problems in future.

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Things to look for in selecting an Anti-virus Program

Features of a Good Anti-Virus:

Things we need to look for,when we purchase an anti-virus are: 

• Good scanning engine
• Behavioral Scanning feature 
• Resource friendly
• Install and uninstall without any problems
• No conflicts with other software
• Boot level Scanning
• Last but not least, User friendly and Operating system flexible

We need to look for its scanning engine; how deep it scans the computer, whether it scans the system files, compressed files etc.. Also different scanning options, like Quick scan, Full Scan, Custom scan.

Now a days we are getting scanning options like root-kit scanning malware scanning built in to the original scanning module. This avoids purchasing an additional protection software for that infections.

This is another point we need to look for. Internet security is one other thing that has led to the concept of Firewall. Firewall is a tool that monitors that network traffic. We can have some ports blocked or allowed using a firewall. It helps us protect our computer from hackers

Browser and Email protection:  Companies have doubled their ideas and came up with concept of Email Client and browser protection. Browser protection comes with different names like site advisor, safe search, Identity protection etc.. Email protection helps us in preventing unwanted junk files to be filtered and deleted including spam.

However, it is our duty not to open any mails that are from unknown senders and that has links that lead to infiltration of different infections. Spammers always try to send spam mails that will always attract our attention.

Internet Security comes with parental control as well. It is a good tool to monitor kids and help them use the Internet safely. 

End of the day, though we use any good anti virus it is our responsibility to be careful in opening sites that are risky and protecting our programs, network and files with a password. Last but not least look for compatibility with your operating system. For instance if we purchase a security program that is compatible with XP computer it is not compatible with vista. So please take some time in looking for these things in an anti-virus program and go for it.

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Removing Fake Spywares Manually

Fake anti-viruses are the most important and dangerous infections from which we need to be cautious about. They keep pestering us with pop-ups showing many risks and show us to purchase a full version of it when we click on clean infections. This includes spy wares that take access of most of the system processes and disable most of the trouble shooting tool in windows. Since they take spy on computers after getting installed they are called Spy wares. These fake anti-viruses are created by hackers trying to steal your money using the tactics: fake alerts, wrong scan results and Interfaces that look similar to popular anti-virus software. They will make PC run slow. This can infect operating systems XP, Vista and win-7 

 

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Fake Anti-Viruses

Anti virus is a basic security tool that protects us from any kind of  viruses. There are more than 145 different anti- virus companies in the market that helps us protect our conputers.


Taking an advantage of these, many people are trying to create fake versions of those that are there in the market which is actually a risk that no one can find so easily and even the anti-virus companies are facing a uphill task to update their definitions for the newly created fake anti-viruses.

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