Step 5 Analyze Simple Computer Virus

Have not bothered by a virus that attacks your computer? While we do not update antivirus programs are able to recognize the evil that mangacau. Why not try fad analyze yourself? Here's a simple step.

Taufik Juhar Adang, senior Vaksinis Vaksincom in Vaksincom seminar held at Ancol, Friday (4/12/2009), gives an explanation how simple steps that infiltrate the virus analysis on the Windows operating bersistem computer, especially if the local virus attack.

"For the local virus itself was easy to analyze, because it would karakterisitknya same," he said. Adang said that first we must have the Internet, to find tools-tools that can be downloaded for free at some sites.

Besides local virus can also be viewed through the list of Windows processes through task manager, to see what kind of a strange file running. In addition, we also can analyze it through the registry tools (reg. edit).

"For more advanced users there are 2 tools that might use the pack and unpack detection and VB Decompiler program. Because the virus is usually locally-based VB," he added.

we can begin to analyze the stages that simple:

1. Understand the type of virus that had attacked: what is disguised Icon and size.
2. Understand the characteristics of the virus. Would make a duplicate file, hide files, inject files, or displaying certain messages.
3. Understand how the virus: What are modified viruses, whether the registry, created master files, or function of the blocked windows.
4. Understand viruses: Does the USB flash disk or folder on the share, because the local virus usually infiltrate through the media 2.
5. Prepare a few tools that are used.