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Chapter 8. Practice 6 - Malicious Code

8.1. Exercise
8.2. Introduction
8.3. Simple Parasite Virus
8.3.1. Sleeping Phase
8.3.2. Spread and Activation
8.3.3. Scanner
8.3.4. Virus Removal
8.4. Feedback

8.1. Exercise

The purpose of this lesson is to present simple parasite virus written in C language. The virus has following spread phases: sleeping, spreading, executing of the malicious code. Possible virus scanners and the removal of virus from infected file are presented later into the session.