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The Impact of Computer Virus Attacks and Its Preventive Mechanisms Among Personal Computer PC Users

The Impact of Computer Virus Attacks and It's Preventive Mechanisms Among Personal Computer (PC) Users

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DEDICATION

This research material titled “The Impact of Computer Virus Attacks and It's Preventive Mechanisms Among Personal Computer (PC) Users” is dedicated to God for his enabling grace, and to all computer enthusiasts who contributed to make life a pleasant experience during my research documentation.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I extend my sincere gratitude to all those who contributed to the completion of this project. Special thanks to my Supervisor (Name of your Supervisor), the Head of Department (Name of your HOD), the Lecturers in the department of Computer Science Education, Book Authors and Profound Scholars of existing or related project material on “The Impact of Computer Virus Attacks and It's Preventive Mechanisms Among Personal Computer (PC) Users” for their invaluable guidance, support, and expertise throughout the journey.

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The Impact of Computer Virus Attacks and It’s Preventive Mechanisms Among Personal Computer (PC) Users

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PRELIMINARY PAGES

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Statement of Problems
  • 1.3 Aim and Objectives of Study
  • 1.4 Research Questions
  • 1.5 Significance of Study
  • 1.6 Scope of Study
  • 1.7 Limitations of the Study
  • 1.8 Definition of Terms

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Conceptual Review
  • 2.3 Theoretical Framework of Computer Viruses
  • 2.3.1 Patterns and Classification of Computer Virus Attacks
  • 2.3.2 Diagnostic Symptoms of Virus Infected Computer
  • 2.3.3 Preventive Mechanisms for Virus Attacks
  • 2.4 Empirical Studies

CHAPTER THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Research Design
  • 3.3 Population of Study
  • 3.4 Sampling and Sampling Technique
  • 3.5 Validation of Research Instrument
  • 3.6 Method of Data Collection
  • 3.7 Method of Data Analysis
  • 3.8 Questionnaire
  • 3.8.1 Interview
  • 3.8.2 Key Informants Interview
  • 3.8.3 Observation
  • 3.9 Ethical Consideration
  • 3.10 Statistical Analysis

CHAPTER FOUR

DATA ANALYSIS, RESULT AND DISCUSSION

  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Presentation and Analysis of Data
  • 4.3 Re-statement of Research Questions
  • 4.4 Test of Hypothesis 1
  • 4.5 Discussion of Findings
  • 4.5.1 Reason for Virus Attack
  • 4.5.2 Symptoms of Computers Infected with Virus
  • 4.5.3 Preventive Mechanisms to Computer Virus Attack

CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Summary of Findings
  • 5.3 Conclusion
  • 5.4 Recommendation

REFERENCES

APPENDIX A - “QUESTIONNAIRE”

ABSTRACT

A computer virus is a piece of software which attaches itself to another program causing undesirable effect on the program. It is attached similar to the way in which biological virus affect other organisms. The purpose of the research is to explore the impact of computer virus attack and provide guidelines on how individuals can protect their personal computer (PC) against virus attacks. Investigation revealed that the threat of attack by computer viruses is in reality a very big problem specifically attacks aimed at subverting computer security. It is important to address the virus attacks and its preventive mechanisms among the personal computer users in this electronic global world. After identification of typical factors which leads to computer virus attacks the possible solutions are put forwarded to personal computer users to surmount this virus attacks and their future improvement in computer usage.

The research design used in this report is descriptive design, utilizing questionnaire method to obtain information from the respondents for this project. Primary data were collected from the primary source which questionnaire was used as an instrument of data collection while secondary data were sources from textbooks, journals, newspapers and the internet were employed. The data were presented on a frequency distribution table and analyzed using simple percentage, while hypothesis was tested using chi-square test. This study is will be of immense help to everyone who has personal computer and connects to a network. It will guide against computer infection and gives protection against virus. It will also be useful to every computer user in general and the whole world at large. Based on the administered questionnaires the result indicated that viruses can infect computer system through a number of ways such as exchange of flash drive, hard disk and network medium.

The Impact of Computer Virus Attacks and It’s Preventive Mechanisms Among Personal Computer (PC) Users

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Introduction

A computer virus is a piece of software which attaches itself to another program causing undesirable effect on the program. It is attached similar to the way in which biological virus affect other organisms. Today’s society has seen a dramatic increase in the use of computers. As a result users of personal computer today need to have comprehensive virus protection mechanisms to face the growing threats of computer viruses. Virus attacks on computer are more harmful that shows up more damage to the computer. Nowadays many computer viruses are designed to self-replicate and self-install over a very short period of time. They come encoded with specific instructions to destroy and advance through its host computer, and can affect a multitude of programs and applications very quickly.

Recognizing the symptoms of a computer virus can help to successfully remove it from the infected computer as quickly as possible; the sooner this is completed, the easier it will be to recover any documents or programs that may be damaged, and prevent the virus from further spreading.

After identification of typical factors which leads to computer virus attacks the possible solutions are put forwarded to PC users to surmount this virus attacks and for their future improvement in computer usage.

As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Research Questions, Scope of work, Limitation of the study and Definition of terms.

1.2 Statement of Problems

Investigation revealed that the threat of attack by computer viruses is in reality a very big problem specifically attacks aimed at subverting computer security. This paper examines computer viruses as malicious logic in a research and development environment, relates them to various models of security and integrity, and examines current research techniques aimed at controlling the threats viruses in particular, and malicious logic in general, pose to computer systems.

Finally, a brief examination of the vulnerabilities of research and development systems that malicious logic and computer viruses may exploit is undertaken.

1.3 Aim and Objectives of Study

The aim of the study is to explore the Impact of Computer Virus Attacks and It’s Preventive Mechanisms among Personal Computer (PC) Users. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out as follows:

  1. To determine the effect that computer viruses have had on computerized information among personal computer users;
  2. To suggest the possible preventive mechanism to safeguard their computer resources from virus attacks;
  3. To identify the reasons that led to virus attacks among the PC users; and
  4. To identify the degree of danger that some of these viruses from controlled laboratory tests pose to information storage.

1.4 Research Questions

The study came up with research questions so as to be able to ascertain the above stated objectives. The specific research questions for the study are stated below as follows:

  • What is the effect that computer viruses have had on computerized information among personal computer users?
  • What are the reasons that led to virus attacks among the PC users?
  • What is the possible preventive mechanism to safeguard their computer resources from virus attacks?
  • What is the degree of danger that some of these viruses from controlled laboratory tests pose to information storage?

1.5 Significance of Study

This study is will be of immense help to everyone who has personal computer and connects to a network. It will guide against computer infection and gives protection against virus. It will also be useful to every computer user in general and the whole world at large.

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CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Literature Review

2.1 Introduction

This chapter focuses on the review of related literature. A literature review includes the current knowledge as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. It documents the state of the art with respect to the topic you are writing. It surveys the literature in the topic selected. In this research work the literature review includes the …

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