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Type of Software: What Is A VIRUS

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Lecture 4 / Chapter 3

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General Items:

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Type of software

Tests? How was it?


Anyone used the online practice test?
Lab work?
Will not be here in Oct 24-27th no review on Oct 25th

- Application (perform a specific task)


o Graphics, Multimedia, Web page designer, Communication
software
- System Software
o programs controlling the operation of the computer and devices
starting application programs
transferring data between devices
o Resides in the memory (copied from the disk into the memoryloaded)

Reading Materials:

Miscellaneous:

Application software
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Packaged Software: Copyrighted, mass produced, meets variety of users


Custom software: Typically used for specific applications
Shareware: Trial period, pay later!
Freeware: Copyrighted, Free
Public domain: Not copyrighted, free, do whatever you want!

System Software examples

- Operating system
o Coordinates all communication between hardware devices
o Resides in the STORAGE device
o Needs to be loaded in the memory every time the computer is
turned on (Stays in the memory until?)
o Tells the computer hardware/software how to operate:
What input/out put devices are there
- Utility Program
o Antivirus program
What is a VIRUS?

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It is a program and copies itself to a device, system


software, application software, and tells them to do
something!
It piggybacks on other programs (needs an AGENT)
First Widespread Virus:
1981: Started from Texas A&M, Called: Elk Cloner
Appeared on the monitor as follow (more info HERE):

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More on computer Virus (just for you to know)

o Real or hype?
o 500 billion dollars was spent to protect 2K bug!
o Millions are spent each year to protect against computer viruses
o By 2002, the odds of getting a computer virus were 1 in 9 (1 in
1000, in 1995)
o A virus can impact any executable file:
o Boot codes
o Executable programs
o Can aim at a specific OS
o Data files are not effected
gif, mp3, txt (reading text email)
o Virus types
o Micro virus (hides in an application)
o Sector virus (infects the computer boot up process)
o File virus (attaches itself to a program file Win32.Hatraed)
o Stealth virus (hides in the working code)
o Polymorphic virus (changes its code as it infects computers
Win32.Hatred writes itself to other files and changes shape
o Time bomb virus (activates itself at a designated time)
o How does it spread?
o Opening a file causes the virus to execute (some have timers)
o When we share files we send the virus
o Be careful when you exchange files online!
o Remember a virus only affects the software not the hardware!
o Ways to fix a virus:
o Install an anti-virus program
o Keep your anti-virus program up-to-date

o Most recent viruses:


o The WORM! resides in the active part of the memory
o Trojan.Xombe (huh?) Typically dont replicate themselves, they capture and send
information, more like spies!
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Operating a computer
- User Interface
o Describes how to input
o Types:

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App.
Software

Start menu

All Programs
submenu

Accessories
submenu

Imaging program
command

GUI
Interface

Application Software Categories:


Productivity
Graphic Design and Multimedia
Home/ Personal/Education
Communications

How to enter &


display data (ICON)

GUI Interface
- A graphical approach to run a software or perform an action
- Related definitions:

Desktop (on-screen work area)


Button (to activate an action START Button)
Icon (representing a program, software, etc.)
Pointer (I-beam, block arrow, pointing hand)
Click!
Menu (collection of commands)
Dialog Box (Printer box)
Command (We run a command to perform an action)
Window (an area of the screen that displays a program,
application, etc.)

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Productivity/Business Software
World processors

- What are its applications?


- Developing stages (5)
o Creating
o Formatting: changing the documents appearance
- Font: Character design name
- Font size: Based on the point system in the computer
Point = 1/72 of an inch (the height)
25 Point = 20/72 almost 1/3 of an inch HEIGHT
- Font style: (
, Italic, underline)
o Editing:
- Making changes to the existing document
- Checking for spelling and grammar
o Saving: Coping from memory to a storage device - such as?
o Printing: Sending a file to an output device called Printer
- What is PDF? A common page description language that
works with many applications programs and printers
- Basic Definitions
o Opening a document? Copying from storage device into memory
o Generating a File: A document that is saved is called a File
o Voice recognition (speech recognition)
- Accepting spoken words
Words to type, commands, etc.

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A little history just for you to know:

- Helps people to be more efficient


- Examples: Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Database

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App.
Software

Hardware

GUI
Inter.

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Windows XP is a GUI interface:

GUI Interface (1984 Apple Computer)


Commands Lines(DOS 1984 Windows)

OS

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- One of the earliest application for PCs


- Early word processors were more like typewriters
o Only used by typists!
o Early editors "page oriented" and not "document oriented"
- Adding in between was a pain!
- First editors were command based (TJ-2 1962)
- The challenge:
o WYSIWYG (pronounced "whizzy-wig") editors
- the technology that makes sure the image seen on the screen
corresponds to what is printed out on paper
- Bravo (first multifont editor 1970)
- Related vocabularies:
o Wordwrap (continue typing without carriage return -1970s)
o Page margin (outside the page body, how many Margins?)
o Clip art (collection of pictures and drawings)
o Spell Checker: (is it intelligent?)
o Clipboard
- Cut: store from document on the clipboard
- Paste: Move from the clipboard into the document
- Copy: duplicate a copy on the ?
- So where is the clipboard?
COOL STUFF: A little about Speech Recognition (SR):
- Process by which a computer identifies spoken words
- Basic properties:
o Utterance (leak or lick?)
o Vocabularies (Hot Cake or Hotcake?)
o Accuracy (Farid or Sarid?; The color is Pink or Link?)
o Training (Pa Yr Ca around the Pa)
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o Recognition ability:
- Isolated words (Dallas, Plano)
- Continues Speech (Advanced Research Center at UTD)
o Try this number: 1-800-223-5436

Note Taking Software


Such as MS OneNote, Tablet PC
Uses digital pen
Includes audio recording
Recognizes handwriting
Spreadsheet Software
o Allows organizing and manipulating data
o Organization of the data is done in the worksheet
o Cells (each entry goes in a cell about 16 million cells)

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Text (letters) and numbers


Currency
Date
Long text (Memo)
Hyperlink
Object (picture)

o Data manipulation (converting the raw data into useful


information)

o Sort: Organizing the data in a particular order


o Query: Requesting for a specific data from the database based on a
give criteria

Other Productivity Business Software

Contains three types of data:


Label or text, Numbers or values, Formulas
o Functions: Predefined formulas in the software:
SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX, etc. (3.13)
o What-if-analysis: Changing a value to identify the effects
Total New Salaries Paid = SUM (Old Salaries x 12%)
o Macros: Sequence of keystrokes / instruction which can be
recorded and played

o Project management software


o Plan and schedule resources, events, etc.
o Accounting software
o Keeping records of financial transactions (payroll)

o Recalculation (when the data changes)


Database Software

o Database: Collection of data which is organized and can easily be


accessed, manipulated, saved, etc.
o Database management software (DBMS)
o Sort, create forms, etc.
o Data types (different kinds of data formats a field can accept 6)

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o Used by Power Users (engineers, architectures, publishers, etc.)


o Examples
o Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Creating architectural designs 3-D shapes
o Desktop publishing (DTP)
Used for high-quality color documents (textbooks)
Supports Page-layout
Arranging text and graphics page-by-page
Includes a Color Library (standard set of colors used to ensure
that colors will print as expected)
o Paint/Image Editing
o Video and audio editing
o Multimedia Authoring
o Web Page Authoring
Computer-Aided Design
(CAD)
Desktop Publishing
(Professional)

Paint/Image Editing
(Professional)

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o Relatively inexpensive
o User friendly and easy to use
o Integrated Software:
o Combining different application into a single package
o Examples of Integrated Software:
o Personal finance software (Quicken, Microsoft Money)
Offering online banking
o Legal Software
Helping in preparing legal documents (Quicken Lawyer)
o Personal paint/image editing software
Manipulating and changing images in different formats
Taking the Red Eye out from a photo!
Online print service
Email them the digital photograph -> they mail you a
high-resolution printed image
o Education/ Reference/ Entertainment
Education - Online learning
Computer-based training (CBT)
o Independent learning
o Consists self-directed self-paced instructions
Reference encyclopedias, dictionaries, medical guides

Communication Software

Video and Audio Editing

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Multimedia Authoring

Web Page Authoring

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Software packages for home and personal use

Graphics and Multimedia Software

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Email, Web browser


Newsgroup, Instant messaging, Chat rooms,
Groupware, Video conferencing
FTP (uploading and downloading files)
Web browser (view web pages)

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Web-based applications

o A software application that exists on the web (free or paid)


o Examples: Yahoo Map, Yahoo Yellow page, Tax
o Some applications allows downloading the software
o MS Web applications (.NET)
o Web based training (WBT)
o Online Computer-based training
o Distance learning (off-campus access to lectures)
o Application service provider (ASP)
o A third-party organization that manages and distributes software
and services on the web

Learning aids

o Online help: electronic manual


o FAQ: answering common questions
o Wizard: automated assistant helping to complete a task

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