Virus abilities

• Since a “virus” is really just a program what harm can it do? What abilities do they have?

  • Any! If a program can do it, so can a virus.
  • Corollary: Its not necessarily a bad thing...

• Viruses are not new. They have been documented well back to the early 70s.

• What is new is the explosion in the number of distinct instances and copies that have appeared