New Code: Algorithm

Computers have been vexed by computer worms for so many years now. Worms are malicious computer programs which if it infected the computer, can spread throughout the network without human control. Once the worms have penetrated in the system, it then pest the computer by stealing or erasing hard drive data, interfering with pre-installed programs causing it to become slow, and it even crash home and work computers.

A new code has been developed just as to solve the problem on these computer worms. Yoon-Ho Choi, a postdoctoral researcher in information sciences and technology together with his colleagues created the new code or commonly known as algorithm which helps protect computers from malicious worms.

Algorithm works by estimating the size of the suggestive host population. From there, it monitors the occurrence of infections within the area. Then, it sets a threshold value just enough the average numbers of scan necessary to infect a host by an infected host.

by: Ella May Galindez
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/