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Vulnerability Reporting to CERT-In
You can report incidents such as bug in a system (which bypass security measures such as Firewall Bypass)
at www.cert-in.org.in.
l Click on the Vulnerability Reporting link.
l Double-click on the Vulnerability Reporting
Form link and download the vulnerability
reporting form.
l Fill the relevant details in the form and send
it to CERT-In through:
E-Mail: vulnerability@cert-in.org.in
Or Fax: +91-11-24368546
Or Post: Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology, Government of India, Electronics Niketan, 6 CGO Complex, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi 110003, India.
MALWARE
Malware refers to infectious programs that hampers the functioning of a computer system. It is unwanted
software which is designed to damage a computer system. Some common types of malware are virus,
worms, trojan horse, spyware, etc.
Virus
A computer virus is a type of unwanted computer program
which is developed by miscreants with an intention to infect
the files of a computer, to corrupt a database or to hamper
the functioning of a computer system.
YOUR PC In a computer system, virus does not evolve by itself, it is
uploaded or injected in a network or into a storage media.
It is communicable, i.e. it is transmitted from one computer
to another computer or to a network by some medium of
transmission like CDs, pen drive, external hard disk, software,
Internet connection, bluetooth, etc. When infected, many
viruses replicate by themselves.
There are different types of viruses that infect specific components or specific functioning of a computer
system. They can range in severity. Some may cause mild damages while others can severely damage
hardware, software or files. Examples of some common viruses are iBryte, OneInstaller, Koobface, CiaDoor,
BrO_AcT, Byte Bandit, Brain, Small.TP, Stealth_C, etc.
Boot Sector Virus
Booting is the process of loading operating system in the primary memory from the boot sector. Boot
sector is the core area of hard disk storage where the most important program like OS are stored.
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