is there such a thing as a hacker virus, my friend told me there is, if so please help...
2006-11-16 12:52:57 · 7 answers · asked by Thor A 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
>You betcha. Nothing makes a White Hat's day like being able to shoot some amateur jackass in the foot in such a manner as to lead him to think he caused it himself...just makes my day.<
2006-11-16 12:58:04 · answer #1 · answered by Druid 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Generally, viruses can be given to anyone. A virus is simply malicious code that, once run, executes a series of commands on your system and spreads. Unless someone was remotely accessing your machine and decided to execute something that was infected on your machine, they wouldn't be infected themselves.
A worm, on the other hand, is a relatively "intelligent" program that CAN connect to remote sources and inject itself via any number of ways. This was probably what your friend was talking about.
There's another form of infecting an attacking party known as "honey-potting", which involves posting seemingly important but fake materials for downloading and executing. You'd leave something obviously important-looking like "CreditCard.txt", and instead of actually having credit card information there (and why would you, for the love of God) you'd leave something like a virus or a worm that installs a rootkit.
To be fair, this isn't an issue about hackers. A hacker really just is an intelligent programmer or somebody that circumvents intelligent rules - this is more "script kiddy" level security.
2006-11-16 13:00:17 · answer #2 · answered by andrew_manoske 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No it is not feasible.Donot get your computer infected. You insatll a standard antivirus soft ware such as Norton, AVG , Avast ( free antivirus software and Ad-aware, Ewido ( free spyware removers). You can download free softwares at
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2006-11-17 19:28:39 · answer #3 · answered by RICH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good firewall will tell you the hackers IP address, all you have to do is find an open port on his computer and, there you go!
2006-11-16 12:55:50 · answer #4 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a felony to introduce malicious code with the intent to harm another's system. So I wouldn't recommend it if you did find a virus that would work.
2006-11-16 13:20:42 · answer #5 · answered by Tragicfame 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
even if there is, it's not like it would really matter. how many people out there are without an up-to-date anti-virus program these days?
2006-11-16 12:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by Roger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because if you have a virus on your computer, that means your computer is infected, there is no benefits of having a virus in your computer.
2006-11-16 12:55:25 · answer #7 · answered by Tony L 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋