April 06, 2008

Axis II Malware

After viruses, Trojan horses, worms, bots, and other spyware, the latest in computer malware started from mental health billing software. It is malicious code that gives your computer a Personality Disorder. It might be difficult to detect, since every computer has a "personality." The following list should help distinguish "normal" computer "quirks" from actual pathology.

How to recognize the types identified thus far:

Antisocial
  • Sells your private info to other ASPD computers on network
  • hogs processing power from other programs, corrupting their files in doing so