Why Computer Viruses?

People may think why there are group of computer savy people whose dedication are being inclined to just mystify people on their simple programming creations.

Computer viruses are not accidentally created by these individual who has the gift of programming skills. They're developing these bugs for a specific purposes. Since money is somewhat the controlling factor especially these tumultous 21th century. Money can really make things possible, even things that only in our deepest imagination occurs.

Computer programmers are sometimes employed by these giant software companies, and highly paid to do the mystifying jobs, developing this headaching computers bugs. You may wondering why these people are being paid for these purpose and how these software companies are making money out of the produce of these technically perverted individuals.

Computer software companies are producing new software generation in an enormous numbers. These various computer software languages are being designed to prone to some technological holes where software bugs are fit to crawl into these softwares.

Now, here comes the best bit of reality. These bug creators on the other hand, simultaneously creates the suitable bugs for those softwares produce by the buddy tech partners, who themselves are computer programmers too.

The moment those softwares passed the quality inspection and released to the general market, a day or two after the final launches, bugs are now being released to the public and start crawling into those softwares.

Then the media will then be informed by these techies that there bugs being monitored by authorities and public are being warned of its potential harm. The public instinctively will begin to panic but then before anyone goes to chaos, they will begin relieve the stress then offers the best, as they called it, remedy for the problem, whom they themselves creates.

Those tech savy individuals who designed bugs are the ones who creates bug fixers, and there they start counting cash coming in. The marketing plan was geniously designed and it really works for decades. Public headaches are truly being used for cash-generation.

Hope these explains plainly and may relieve your wondering on how computer viruses came into scene into our cyberworld.

-daryl-

April 2009 Global Computer Worm Alert!

Experts watched warily Wednesday as a worm infecting millions of computers activated itself as predicted on April 1. However fears the Conficker.c worm would cause chaos have so far proved unfounded, with no reports of major problems.

"As long as you've patched or at least brought your antivirus software up to speed, you should be fine," said Chris Pirillo, a tech expert for CNN.com. And there are plenty of anti-virus software packages available. "I believe just about everybody out there," Pirillo said, "has a removal tool." Still, the worm could cause problems, he said. Unlike viruses, worms self propagate, spreading by networks. "Once it's out there, it's very difficult to stop," Pirillo said.

He predicted that "the worst possible outcome" would be that some computers would run "suboptimally," as network traffic becomes clogged.And its ability to do that is cleverly designed: Conficker.c has a feature that disables the Windows update program in the Microsoft product, keeping Windows from becoming patched, Pirillo said. It also disables the auto-update capabilities of many anti-virus software programs.Pirillo said it may be a week or more before the true impact of the worm is known, but he predicted it will have one.

"It's going to be very annoying to say the least," he said. "It's going to impact network traffic." Lawrence Baldwin, the chief forensics officer with mynetwatchman.com, an Internet security site based in Atlanta, said the motivations of Conficker.c designers appear to be different from the those who designed previous worms, which infected millions of computers but had little impact.

"Three or four or five years ago, they were plainly trying to prove how smart they were," he said. Now, he said, the designers' motivation appears to be financial. "They can make serious amounts of cash with a variety of means."Still, he predicted, any damage will be limited. "I don't suspect that we're going to have any kind of global meltdown as a result of this thing. I think what we'll see is that the purpose and intent of Conflicker is to deploy a whole plethora of secondary malware -- spam, Trojans, key loggers, distributed denial-of-service attacks, adware, etcetera, etcetera. Basically, all the things that the criminal can make money with."

Widespread media coverage of the threat may have motivated many individuals and corporations to act, possibly minimizing the potential impact.But just what is that threat? Computer experts acknowledged they don't know for sure. "The biggest question is what is actually going to happen?" said Simit Shah, director of Web operations for CNN.com. So far, the worm "kind of calls home and says, 'What should I do?'" he said. And so far, the response has been to do nothing, he said.

But on Wednesday, the worm is expected to expand its daily call list from a set list of 250 sites to 500 Web sites chosen at random from 50,000, "so it becomes harder to continue using some of the countermeasures that have worked so far," he said.The worm "could end up connecting to one of these sites and say, 'Go do something,'" he said. That "something" could wind up being any of a number of different kinds of attacks on any of a number of Web sites, including government ones, he said.

He said the worm already controls more than 10 million computers by some estimates and is very sophisticated. "If someone says, 'I want to try to hack some system and try millions of combinations of Social Security numbers,' they could purchase this computing power to do that," Shah said. In February, security experts' efforts to fight back got a boost when Microsoft offered a $250,000 reward to anyone who could catch the worm authors.

That resulted in the formation of Conficker Cabal, a group of security experts trying to combat the worm. Despite the worm's potential for causing damage, its still-unknown authors have earned "a lot of respect" from the security experts, Shah said. "These guys are doing stuff you don't normally see done," he said. One of the first things it does is to disable a computer's automatic updates, he said. In October, Microsoft released a patch to fix this vulnerability, but many computer users have not updated yet. And, "once you get the worm, it disables your ability to update," Shah said. Mac users are in luck, since the worm is designed solely to exploit Microsoft software.

"A Mac is not impervious to nasties," Pirillo said. "It's just that the tallest nail always gets pounded, and right now Windows is the tallest nail."

What Does Technology Did For ME?

Everybody doesn't exactly know what had actually happened the moment we first landed on Earth (during birth) including me. But this personal story are the accounts heard from words of mouth from people who had personally witnessed that first page in my book of life. My mom, my sisters, and my aunts.

Our family has this "special genetic pattern" as I call it. My great grandmother has a twin brother, but right after the delivery the boy DIED. My grandmother has a sister with twin brother, and right after the delivery the boy DIED. One of my mother's sister has a twin brother and it DIED right after birth.

My mom got me and I got a twin sister. During pre-natal check-ups doctors strangely didn't detect any possibility that I was there in my mom's womb :-) and only during delivery that they knew that we're twins. A baby girl and a very weak baby boy.

Since the doctors and didn't expect my mom will gave birth to a twins, after the baby girl was delivered, she was prepared to be transfered to the ward section, but after few hours while in the ward section she complains for another contraction inside, and that's when I came out.

According to their stories, based on our lineage, every twin (a girl and a boy) the boy always didn't make it his way to enjoy life. But it was broken because I am still here right now right here writing this blog.

Of course it's God's grace and decision for me to be here, and I know Technology available inside the hospital contributed a great help for me to survive. I can't explain exactly how it happens that I survived but one thing I can tell you that because of the hospital has these not so hi-tech equipment but at least there was this sophisticated facilities (at least during that time it was sophisticated) to keep cases like me to survive through life.

And that's what TECHNOLOGY has done for me AFTER GOD decided to let me live and enjoy life with my family and all my friends and acquintances and it's that miracle that made it possible for me to be able to pound my fingers right here over my keyboard and make it possible that you're right there reading my stories. :-)

What Technology and Why Technology?

Technology is the process by which humans modify nature to meet their needs and wants. Most people, however, think of technology in terms of its artifacts: computers and software, aircraft, pesticides, water-treatment plants, birth-control pills, and microwave ovens, to name a few. But technology is more than these tangible products.

Technology includes all of the infrastructure necessary for the design, manufacture, operation, and repair of technological artifacts, from corporate headquarters and engineering schools to manufacturing plants and maintenance facilities. The knowledge and processes used to create and to operate technological artifacts -- engineering know-how, manufacturing expertise, and various technical skills -- are equally important part of technology.

Technology is a product of engineering and science, the study of the natural world. Science has two parts: (1) a body of knowledge that has been accumulated over time and (2) a process-scientific inquiry-that generates knowledge about the natural world. Engineering, too, consists of a body of knowledge-in this case knowledge of the design and creation of human-made products-and a process for solving problems. Science aims to understand the "why" and "how" of nature, engineering seeks to shape the natural world to meet human needs and wants. Engineering, therefore, could be called "design under constraint," with science-the laws of nature-being one of a number of limiting factors engineers must take into account. Other constraints include cost, reliability, safety, environmental impact, ease of use, available human and material resources, manufacturability, government regulations, laws, and even politics. In short, technology necessarily involves science and engineering.

The nature of technology has changed dramatically in the past hundred years. Indeed, the very idea of technology as we now conceive it is relatively new.

For most of human history, technology was mainly the province of craftsmen who passed their know-how down from generation to generation, gradually improving designs, and adding new techniques and materials. By the beginning of the twentieth century, technology had become a large-scale enterprise that depended on large stores of knowledge and know-how, too much for any one person to master. Large organizations were now required for the development, manufacture, and operation of new technologies. Complex networks of interdependent technologies were developed, such as the suite of technologies for the automobile. These include gas and oil refineries, filling stations and repair shops, tire manufacturers, automobile assembly plants, the highway system, and many more. The government began to play a larger role in shaping technology through technological policies and regulations.

The meaning of the word "technology" evolved to reflect these changes. In the nineteenth century, technology referred simply to the practical arts used to create physical products, everything from wagon wheels and cotton cloth to telephones and steam engines. In the twentieth century, the meaning of the word was expanded to include everything involved in satisfying human material needs and wants, from factories and the organizations that operate them to scientific knowledge, engineering know-how, and technological products themselves.

As the nature of technology changed, its meaning became more vague, leaving room for misconceptions that sometimes led to questionable conclusions.