Outline for November 6, 2024

Reading: text, §23.2.2–23.5
Due: Homework 3, due November 6; Project progress report, due November 8 (Note extension)

1. Trojan horse
   1. Propagating Trojan horses

2. Computer virus
   1. Brief history
   2. Infection vectors: boot sector, executable, multipartite, macro
   3. Concealment: TSR, stealth, encrypted, polymorphic, metamorphic

3. Computer worms

4. Bots and Botnets

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