Malicious software prevention for Muslim communities

• Main Author: Ahmad Zabidi, Muhammad Najmi
• Format: Monograph
• Language: English
• Published: s.n 2012
• Subjects: B Philosophy (General); T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/35730/1/EDW_A11-151-0942..pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/35730/

Malicious software or popularly known as malware is a threat to the computer users, regardless which platform that they are using; desktops, laptops or mobile phones. Malware is a type of software which purposely written for malicious purpose. It manipulates software vulnerability to get illegal access to the host machine. Malware evolves from a primitive, straight forward software to sophisticated and difficult to detect features, for instance by using decryptors, obfuscations and packers.