Stepes of a computer infection

An infected .EXE file arrives as an email

attachment.

The infected .exe file is opened.

Your machine is infected.

Virus spreads in the Windows system.

Virus is copied when the system starts.

This copy is infected.

This copy infects other 35 bit .EXE files in the windows directory and subdirectories when run.

Five minute after the file is opened the worm it creates a .DAT file hidden somewhere on the hard disc.

Machine is infecting others as the message will be returned to sender.

Prace wykonała:Magdalena Sitek