The VIRUS Phobia

A general computer science student working at his room suddenly notices something strange in his system. Some of the icons are distorted, a folder inside the folder with the same name, and some applications are not working properly. He immediately thinks that what happened to the system, then it strikes to his mind that his computer may be infected by a virus. He instead of removing the virus makes up his mind to format the system, reinstalling the windows and then the various drivers and finally all the applications.

This is the general view of many of the peoples who knows how to install the windows. The rest who don’t know how to install windows, thinks that many of the things in the system are not working properly, and due to the fear that it will spoil their costly system, they immediately call the vendor to do the things right; which in turn charges them a huge amount in lieu of doing the things right, which in fact is not a difficult task. Thus, many of us don’t exactly know how to handle the situation when a computer is attacked by a virus.

Whenever you notice that the system is doing something strange, some of the applications are not working properly, windows is distorted then it may be the case that your system may be infected by virus. But there is nothing to panic. Remain calm and try to find out the virus and also find the way to fix that.

Amit Saxena, a student of Electrical and Electronics branch, is having system just only to carry out general word processing, listening songs, and watching movies. He used to collect the media from various sources and don’t worry about whether the data is safe or not. Result is, very often his system is infected with virus. And when the situation of the system becomes critical that it can’t work further then he simply formats the system, mostly spoiling his 4 to 5 hours. Thus in a month he use to format his system about 5 to 6 times. This is not right, as it creates a bad effect on the hard disk.

Handling a virus attack in fact is not a hard nut to crack. Just you need some knowledge and most important is the “patience”. As prevention is better than cure, so it is beneficial to protect your computer using a good anti-virus program, keep the virus definitions update and also copy data from secure source. Whenever you bring any data from sources that you think may be vulnerable to viruses, always scan that.

Whenever you find that your computer is infected by virus then there is no need to panic. Simply think of the source from where the virus made its way to the system, block that way so that it can’t make its way back to the system when you are on your way to fix that virus. To fix most viruses just follow the following steps:

• Update the virus definitions of your anti-virus program.
• Turn-off the system restore utility in windows XP. If it’s not possible to turn off the system restore, then restart the system in the safe mode and then turn off the system restore.
• Perform full system scan, select fix for all the found viruses. If some of the viruses that cannot be fixed by the anti-virus program; quarantine all those infected files.

In most of the cases above provided steps will fix the problem, and if problem still persists then go online and get a fix for that particular virus.

Always make back up of your important data, so that in case of virus attack you not lose your data that may be the result of years of work. So, next time if you get infected by virus then don’t try to reinstall windows or call vendor for help, simply do it yourself.

Categories of Members in Software Project Teams…..

Here I'm presenting my personal view about the different types of persons that I've come through in my college life and in the development of software project. It is my thinking about these types of people, and many of you also agree with me. Any suggestions on this matter is highly appreciated.....

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Theorists:

This kind of personnel in the field of programming knows the complete detail of how the things go on, what’s the theory behind it, what logic must be applied to do the things in the right way but they rarely have done these all things in practical. They can very well explain you how should you proceed but when the point comes for them to do those things by themselves they fail. They only have the theoretical knowledge but practically they are zero.

Loudspeaker:

Producing a lot of sound and impressing the audience is their main property. This kind of people are very well suited for presentations but becomes dangerous for the group sometimes when they are trapped by the questions of the audience. This category of the people can say all the things fluently in front of the audience what they have mugged up during the preparation. These people have expertise in speaking and also have good level of confidence to present the things in a relevant manner. Sometimes if they are trapped by the audience then they handle the matter by their common sense and knowledge what so ever they are having

Commandos:

A very special category of the programmers is the commandos, who once understood the problem domain, are capable of doing all the work in time and in perfect manner. They know all the minute details of each and every step they are applying to solve the things. They are having sound technical knowledge both theoretical and practical. Confused professors seem to take lessons from commandos, and its big head ache of commandos to describe the things properly to confused professors. Also "Politician" is seen to have conflict with the commandos.

Confused Professor:

Knowing a lot of programming languages as ‘C’, “JAVA”, J2EE, .NET, etc. but very few of them are recalled at the time when there is need is the problem of these types of persons. These types of people gain lot of knowledge in a short span of time but they don’t practice that knowledge; thus they get confused in the syntax and other minute details of the various programming languages. They not only themselves confused but they try to confuse the other people also. The main problem with “Confused Professor” is that being professor (in nature) he tries to explain the things to other people but being confused he actually fails to do that and confuses others also. So, other members try to keep away from confused professor. But commandos know that this guy is having a lot of knowledge, and when commandos are in problem they seek the help of confused professor.

Showman GUY:

Talking about lot of technical words, carrying electronic devices to impress others, always doing work so that he must be the point of attraction of others – these are some of the activities that are done by the persons having this quality. They always try to show that they are superior than others, having a lot technical knowledge, they do what they like, don’t listen to others but actually they are only having little knowledge; in background they steal the ideas of commandos and administrators. They always try to keep away from commandos because they know that once they came in contact with the commandos, commandos will know their reality and then they cannot show off in front of commandos.

Side Kick:

Gathering material from various sources, giving ideas that are actually of others, going here ‘n there for printouts, reference books, etc. were main jobs of side kick. This category is overlooked in team but plays an important role in the team. The administrators and commandos know the potential of side kick. They exploit their potential for the welfare of the project. Side kick don’t argue with "Administrators" and "Commandos", and accept the work assigned to them happily.