Viruses and how to protect your computer from Viruses

Team Information

Group Name: The Trojans

Group Members:
Kathryn (Katie) Dupuis
Brad Soon
Santi Churphongphun
Mark Sauverwald

Group Member Contact Information:
Kathryn (Katie) Dupuis - kldupuis@ucalgary.ca
Brad Soon - btsoon@ucalgary.ca
Santi Churphongphun -sgchurph@ucalgary.ca
Mark Sauverwald - namadoor@gmail.com

Technology

Technology: Viruses
Issue: How to protect your computer from Viruses

Initial Project Statement

Initial Project Statement:

The technology that our group has chosen to look at is Trojan Viruses, and the issue that we will be focusing on is how you can protect your computer from Trojan viruses. We will investigate what a Trojan virus is. In addition, we will look at the threat of your computer being infected with Trojan when you are on the internet, including which types of sites and applications that you are most likely to recieve a virus from. We will look at the different types of Anti-virus software and argue how effectively they protect, disinfect/ quarinitne trojans.

Where does the Computer Trojan Horse come from? Image from http://www.tech-faq.com/trojan-horse-virus.shtml