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MABATINEWS Computer virus By Sam Kamau Systems Administrator Dear Reader, the word COMPUTER VIRUS has become a generic term that refers to all the malicious ways that your computer can be attacked. The most common blunder people make when the topic of a computer virus arise is to refer to a worm or trojan horse as a virus. While the words trojan horse, worm and virus are often used interchangeably, they are not the same. Viruses, Worms and Trojan Horses are all malicious programs that can cause damage to your computer, but there are differences among the three, and knowing those differences can help you to better protect your computer from their often damaging effects. A virus is a small program (piece of code) that piggybacks on other programs or files. A virus can be attached to a word or excel file by placing its code in the path of execution so that each time the file is run, the virus runs too hence replicating itself in the process. Since a virus is programmed to alter the way a computer operates, without the permission or knowledge of the user it can damage your programs, hardware and even delete your files. Others are not designed to do any damage, but simply to replicate themselves and make their presence known by presenting text, video, and audio messages. Even these “simple” viruses can create problems for the computer user. They typically take up computer memory used by legitimate programs. As a result, they often cause erratic behavior and can result in system crashes. A worm is similar to a virus by its design, and is considered to be a sub-class of a virus. Worms spread from computer to computer, but unlike a virus, it has the capability to travel without any help from a person. Worms replicate themselves from system to system without the use of a host file. This is in contrast with viruses, which require the spreading of an infected host file. A worm takes advantage of information transport features on your system, which allows it to travel unaided. The biggest danger with a worm is its capability to replicate itself on your system, so rather than your computer sending out a single worm, it could send out hundreds or thousands of copies of itself, creating a huge devastating effect. Due to the copying nature of a worm and its capability to travel across networks the end result in most cases is that the worm consumes too much system memory (or network bandwidth), causing network servers and individual computers to stop responding. More recent attacks such as the much-talked-about blaster worm, have been designed to tunnel into your system and allow malicious users to control your computer remotely. Others are designed using SMPT (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) engines and will send hundreds of email from your system without your knowledge – spamming. A Trojan horse is a computer program masquerading as a benign application, game or a “cute” program. The Trojan horse, at first glance, will appear to be useful software but will actually do damage once installed or run on your computer. Those on the receiving end of a Trojan horse are usually tricked into opening them because they appear to be receiving legitimate software or files from a legitimate source. When a Trojan is activated on your computer, the results can vary. Trojans are designed to be more annoying than malicious (like changing your desktop, adding silly active desktop icons, blocking your screen with a graphic that will not go away). Trojans are also known to create a backdoor on your computer that gives malicious users access to your system, possibly allowing confidential or personal information to be compromised. Unlike viruses and worms, Trojans do not reproduce by infecting other files nor do they self- replicate. Having familiarized ourselves with the above terms we now need to be alert of messages that are normally sent by email to propagate unnecessary alarm about viruses. Virus hoaxes are messages, almost always sent by email, that amount to little more than chain letters. Following are some of the common phrases that are used in these hoaxes: If you receive an email titled [virus hoax name here], do not open it! Delete it immediately! It contains the virus [hoax name]. It will delete everything on your hard drive [extreme and improbable danger specified here]. This virus was announced today by [reputable organization name here e.g. CNN]. Forward this warning to [everyone in your address book!] Most virus hoax warnings do not deviate far from this pattern. If you are unsure if a virus warning is legitimate or a hoax, kindly seek clarification from your system admin or from the Internet through a website like www.symantec.com . I trust and hope that this article has enlightened you on the various threats posed to our systems and you can clearly distinguish them. Thank you for taking your time to read this article. 8 M A B A T I N E W S
Seeing the big picture in teamwork… Assume you are the manager of a company; a supervisor calls you and says he has a breakdown (A CONVEYOR CHAIN IS BROKEN), what do you do? Similarly, at home we encounter challenges, which require solving. These challenges might be, for example, financial, social or maintenance based. When confronted with a problem at your Gemba or at home the following questions do race in most peoples minds: What happened? What do we need to do here? Why did this happen? What is the cost of this happening always? What is the real problem? How do you solve the problem? How do you ensure that it does not happen again? The first three questions can be easily answered as follows by most people: The following could be the answers from most of the people. 1. What happened? The operators have caused a breakdown because we did not provide transport. 2. What do we need to do here? Have the machine started and give warning letters to the operator. 3. Why did this happen? Because of sabotage. 4. What is the cost of this happening always? The company loses on time, customer confidence, labor, and inventories, transport, etc. 5. What is the real problem? Actually that is difficulty to answer. To seek out the cause problem you need more than yourself. No wonder the Creator formed more than one being. The above answers do not solve the problem, all the answers are but finger pointing answers to one another and not solving the root cause of the problem. When confronted with a problem at your Gemba or at home we need to find the answers to the above questions using ‘5Why analysis’ and ‘2H’ technique e.g. there is a breakdown in the plant: What happened? The conveyor chain is broken. Why did the conveyor chain break? There was lack of lubrication oil in the machine. Why wasn’t the machine lubricated? Lubrication of the machine is difficult to be done. Why is the lubrication of the machine difficult to be done? Lubrication point is difficult to locate. Why is the lubrication point difficult to locate? The lubrication point is not been marked. Why wasn’t the lubrication point marked? The painter painted the lubrication indicator arrow pointer. How do you solve this? A visual sign through color-coding be assigned to all the lubrication points of the conveyors. How do you ensure this does not happen again? Training to be done to the machine operators, painter and the rest of the team on the visual management. To realize our vision of being world class we work as a mechanical chain. A chain has many links together to form a chain everyone of us including you the reader is part of the chain. Hence you are a very important member of the team. Due to the breakdown of the chain in the plant all the other team players would not do a thing. TEAM MEANS:- T-Together E-Everybody A-Achieves M-Missions WORK MEANS:- W-Winning O-Organization R-Requires K-Kaizen (Continual Improvement) Every day has its challenges, do you perceive problems to be bigger than mountains and quit trying solutions? Similarly at home we encounter challenges, which require us solving. These challenges might be financial, social or maintenance based (iron box is not working) Where do you normally operate when faced with a challenge? Where do most people operate? Looks difficult, not possible due to: Fear of rejection due to failure or loss of status Lack of vision Rules are restrictive Lack of knowledge or skill Lack of resources. Easy to do is the ultimate comfort zone where ordinary leaders can achieve their goals and objectives withought much imagination and problems, due to the reasons stated above. We need to eliminate words like "its impossible", "I cannot do it", "Goals are not attainable", and this will prompt us towards realization of our Mission and Vision. Food for thought What would you do if you were not afraid? What would you do if you had all the resources needed and all constraints removed? Not possible Looks difficult Easy to do Do not miss the next issue, as we will focus on how to generate ideas towards creativity and innovations, problem solving and many more. Carol Soi STAFFCORNER Standard Chartered Marathon <strong>MRM</strong> Sponsored 30 athletes to the Standard Chartered Marathon on Sunday October 29, 2006 at the Nyayo Stadium for the half marathon, 10km race. Twenty-five gents and four women completed the marathon the first person completing at position 365 out of 15,000 participants. M A B A T I N E W S 9
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