03-12-2012, 06:01 PM
CATCHING AND USING THE VIRUS NAME: EDOBOR OSEGHALE WELLINGTON.
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INTRODUCTION
Computer viruses have become a very serious threat in the field of computing today.
The negative effect of a computer virus was likened to biological viruses which has the ability to cause diseases in humans. However, these biological diseases are been combated today due to the fact that a lot have been learnt about them. By the same token, computer viruses can make computing system malfunction, although they can also lead to a remarkable improvement in the performance of information technology (Akinyokun, 1995).
The computer viruses can either affect the system resources positively or negatively. The basic computer resources are the RAM and HARD DISK etc.
The modification of what makes the computer viruses a threat to the computer integrity can be use for effective and efficient management of our system resources. In the paper ‘catching and using the virus’, a simulation was developed to usefully monitor and control the creation (birth), update (survival) and deletion (death) of users data and program files in the host computer hard disk. The ultimate goal of the modified package was to;
a. Keep track of users files in the system hard disk
b. Give notice of each of the users files that is
i. More than one month old
ii. Has not been accessed and updated in the last one month
iii. Occupies more than ‘X.Mbyte’
c. Display the records of the offending files and delete them automatically at the end of third notification
1.1 MOTIVATION
1. The demand for system resources in every computing system is of very importance. Therefore, there is need to efficiently manage the available small-size system resources (i.e. RAM and HARD DISK) for optimal use by processing operations of computing system.
2. There is also the need to improve on the computational speed of the system.
3. The need to protect computing system resources and users’ programs or files from the attack of harmful programs such as viruses
1.2 AIMS & OBJECTIVES
The essence of the paper was to;
a. Study the negative and positive effect of virus programs on computing system and its resources
b. To design a model to simulate the positive and negative application of virus technology.
1.3 METHODOLOGY
First of all, a careful study of the negative effect of virus program was carried out by the author.
A model was then developed to simulate both the effect of negative & positive application of computer virus technology.
For the negative effect, a design and implementation of computer viral production simulation software package with the goals of;
a. Using the up the free space of the host computer RAM during it run time
b. Using up the free space of the host computer hard disk when the output reports of the package are stored was developed.
For the positive effect, a computer viral production simulation software package was modified to usefully monitor & control the creation (birth), update (survival) and deletion (death) of the user’s data and program files in the host computer hard disk.
1.4 CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE
The author was able to design a model to convert the negative effect of virus program to a positive one that helps to monitor and control the creation (birth), update (survival) and deletion (death) of user’s data and program files in the host computer hard disk.
1.5 AREAS OF FURTHER RESEARCH
The public need to be educated about the positive effect of writing a virus program and thereby channelling the hearts of those programmers who engage in writing bad virus program to a better thinking domain. It is also clear that software can be develop to tackle the menace bad virus programs has caused computer users.