Readings
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- Malware: Fighting Malicious Code - chapters 1 - 8
Section Topics
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Viruses and Worms
- What they are
- How they proliferate
- How they affect systems
- Where they live within systems
- How to deal with them
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Trojan Horses
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Types
- Remote access
- Backdoors
- Net redirectors
- (Distributed) Denial of Service Zombies
- Phone dialers
- Password collectors
- Parasites
- How they proliferate
- How to deal with them
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Types
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Adware and spyware
- Differences and similarities
- How they are obtained
- How to deal with them