Malware : An Anti Virus Protection Software

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At the Aim Higher College there have been recently discovered malware on the campus systems that are due to many recent attacks. I used an Anti-virus protection software called AVG on the computer systems on campus and ran a whole computer scan. The results came back very quick of numbers of malware being high and medium priorities that these should not be taken lightly. Furthermore, the scan found many viruses, Trojans, and malicious software and applications.
The first finding was a medium priority that was a cryptcat.exe file this program can potentially be used to remote access the program. The second finding was a Psh.exe file that was a very high priority it was a Trojan Horse Dropper named Generic4.BVMA, this really do some damage to the system by crashing it or altering it. Thirdly, I found a medium priority that was a astlog.exe file that is develop by NirSoft, the file can be a harmful program Logger.IAC that is an adware software and attackers can misuse this to get your passwords on your system. The fourth malware I found on the scan was a high priority from the Isadump2...

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