Ex. 5. Find the terms in the text which describe the following. Put down the number of the paragraph :

 a. to succeed in doing sth. difficult that you planned to do.

 b. to stop smth. happening or to stop sb. doing sth.

 c. to try to do sth. as well as, or better than somebody

 d. the program and other operating information used by a computer

 e. discovering sth that is difficult to see, feel

Ex. 6 Say if the following statements are true or false:

1. Antivirus software (or anti-virus) is computer software used to identify and remove computer viruses.

2. The advantage of this detection method is that users are only protected from viruses that pre-date their last virus definition update.

3. Some anti-virus programs are not able to scan opened files in addition to sent and received e-mails 'on the fly' in a similar manner.

4. Anti-virus software changes the underlying capability of host software to transmit viruses.

5.  Once a computer has been compromised by a virus, it is usually unsafe to continue using the same computer without completely reinstalling the operating system.

6. There are several methods which antivirus software can not use to identify malware.

7. This type of detection can be used to identify unknown viruses.

 

Ex.7 Answer the following questions. Find answers in the text. Put down the number of the paragraph

1. What is antivirus software used for?

2. What are antivirus programs able to do?

3. Why does anti-virus software also need to be regularly updated?

4. What do you know about signature based detection?

5. What is a malicious activity detection?

6. What is heuristic-based detection?

 

V. Oral Practice

 

Ex. 8  Describe methods for detecting viruses.

Ex. 9 Prove the importance of using different antivirus programs.

Ex. 10 Put this sentences in order according to the text and retell the text.

1.Malicious activity detection.

2. Two common methods to detect viruses.

3. A wide range of malware.

4. Signature based detection.

5. Heuristic based detection.

Ex. 11  Discussion points:

1. Why do you use antivirus program? What kind of antivirus program do you know? How often do you reinstall antivirus software?

2. Describe the process of identifying and remiving viruses in your personal computer.

 

IV Reading and comprehension

Ex. 12. Read the text and translate it

New words:

claim - стверджувати

innovator - винахідник

widespread- розповсюджений

The first antivirus product

1. There are competing claims for the innovator of the first antivirus product. Perhaps the first publicly-known neutralization of a wild PC virus was performed by Bernt Fix (also Bernd) in early 1987. Fix neutralized an infection of the Vienna virus. The first edition of Polish antivirus software was released in 1987; the program was only available with a Polish interface. Autumn 1988 saw antivirus software Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit released by Briton Alan Solomon. Also in 1988 AIDSTEST and AntiVir were released. By December 1990, the market had matured to the point of nineteen separate antivirus products being on sale.

2. Peter Tippett made a number of contributions to the budding field of virus detection. He was a doctor who also ran a computer software company. He had read an article about the Lehigh virus and questioned whether they would have similar characteristics to biological viruses that attack organisms. From an epidemiological viewpoint, he was able to determine how these viruses were affecting systems within the computer . Tippett’s company began to create anti-virus software programs. The company was sold in 1992 to Symantec Corp, and Tippett went to work for them, incorporating the software he had developed into Symantec’s product, Norton AntiVirus

3. Before Internet connectivity was widespread, viruses were typically spread by infected floppy disks; antivirus software started to be used, but was updated relatively infrequently. At that time it was said, correctly, that viruses could not be spread by the readable content of emails, although executable attachments were as risky as programs on floppy disks. As Internet usage became common, initially by making a modem connection when desired, viruses spread through the Internet, facilitated by powerful macros in word processors such as Microsoft Word; hitherto "documents" could not spread infection, although programs could.