Week 8: Security & Protecting Yourself on The Internet (I)
Your silence will not protect you. ― Audre Lorde
Hey guys, so that is the quote of the week. Threats and dangers can lurk anywhere and anytime (not limited to the internet), so security and protection for yourself is definitely important. Keeping silent will definitely not help you, well unless of course if you're hiding under the bed from an attacker or when you are playing hide and seek.
This week's class and topic triggered my memory of a particular incident in my secondary school days. I belonged to a technologically advanced school that integrates technology in teaching and learning to provide a more enriched education for their students. Thus, every new batch of secondary 1 students are encouraged to each own a personal learning device. Back in my time that device was a Tablet PC. Majority of my peers owned one, but I belonged to the minority that lived through my secondary school days without one. My parents felt that it was unnecessary, so I respected their decision. Anyway, lucky for me, I escaped the viral infection that circulated throughout the school like wild fire.
A fellow schoolmate downloaded a file from the internet and infected her computer with a worm known to me then as
The Panda Virus. Unknowing that the worm was in her computer, the girl continued about her daily schoolwork and shared files with other peers through thumb-drives. This caused these thumb-drives to be infected which in turn infects any computer that these thumb-drives get plugged into. This had set of a multiplier effect and by the time the symptoms of the worm was noticed, hundreds of Tablet PCs had already been infected and were unusable because of the worm.
This Panda Virus is known to experts as
Fujacks-I and
Fujacks-J or
worm.whboy in some sources. It was first heard of in China in 2007 and had let to a massive pandemic in the country. Seemingly harmless, it is a parasitic worm that leeches itself on EXE files to spread itself; hence, causing a computer to have tons of copies of the worm on it. You may be curious as to how it could be transmitted via external devices and not be detected. This is because in order to ensure the continuity of its kind, it "creates hidden AUTORUN file" on the external devices, enabling it to safely release its venom. The following image is iconic for The Panda Virus.
The worm changes the infected programmes and computer files to this icon and when that happens it means, "
You've been hit."
Click the following link if you would like to find out more about this worm.
Voice out and seek the help you need.
Take care and have a great week guys!
Week 8: Security & Protecting Yourself on The Internet (I)
Your silence will not protect you. ― Audre Lorde
Hey guys, so that is the quote of the week. Threats and dangers can lurk anywhere and anytime (not limited to the internet), so security and protection for yourself is definitely important. Keeping silent will definitely not help you, well unless of course if you're hiding under the bed from an attacker or when you are playing hide and seek.
This week's class and topic triggered my memory of a particular incident in my secondary school days. I belonged to a technologically advanced school that integrates technology in teaching and learning to provide a more enriched education for their students. Thus, every new batch of secondary 1 students are encouraged to each own a personal learning device. Back in my time that device was a Tablet PC. Majority of my peers owned one, but I belonged to the minority that lived through my secondary school days without one. My parents felt that it was unnecessary, so I respected their decision. Anyway, lucky for me, I escaped the viral infection that circulated throughout the school like wild fire.
A fellow schoolmate downloaded a file from the internet and infected her computer with a worm known to me then as
The Panda Virus. Unknowing that the worm was in her computer, the girl continued about her daily schoolwork and shared files with other peers through thumb-drives. This caused these thumb-drives to be infected which in turn infects any computer that these thumb-drives get plugged into. This had set of a multiplier effect and by the time the symptoms of the worm was noticed, hundreds of Tablet PCs had already been infected and were unusable because of the worm.
This Panda Virus is known to experts as
Fujacks-I and
Fujacks-J or
worm.whboy in some sources. It was first heard of in China in 2007 and had let to a massive pandemic in the country. Seemingly harmless, it is a parasitic worm that leeches itself on EXE files to spread itself; hence, causing a computer to have tons of copies of the worm on it. You may be curious as to how it could be transmitted via external devices and not be detected. This is because in order to ensure the continuity of its kind, it "creates hidden AUTORUN file" on the external devices, enabling it to safely release its venom. The following image is iconic for The Panda Virus.
The worm changes the infected programmes and computer files to this icon and when that happens it means, "
You've been hit."
Click the following link if you would like to find out more about this worm.
Voice out and seek the help you need.
Take care and have a great week guys!
My Virtual Thought Bubble
Guten Tag!
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them. ― Steve Maraboli
HELLO!
Welcome to my COM 125 blog.
COM 125 is a module where I learn things about the internet that I had not known about and this is the little space where I share things about the internet that I learn beyond the classroom through the internet.
The quote above is a good overall learning take from the internet. The internet was invented to solve problems that existed back then and has ever since been continuously innovated to tackle more problems. As a result, it has undoubtedly brought about great ease and happiness to us.
I hope you will enjoy reading my posts and be enlightened just as I had been (:
― Jovina
