Vocabulary List

contagious [kən’teiʤəs] – заразный, инфекционный

illicit – незаконный, запрещенный

replicate – повторять, копировать

trigger – запускать, приводить в действие

covert – невидимый, скрытый, тайный

destructive – деструктивный, разрушительный

eradicate – уничтожать; вырывать с корнем

insert – вставлять, помещать

dormant – бездействующий, скрытый

destructive – разрушительный, наносящий ущерб

benign [bi`nain] – добрый, милостливый

nuisance – мешающий

bulletin board – реколлегия, система телеконференции с открытым доступом

write-protection – с защитой от несанкционированной записи

write-protection tab – наклейка защиты от записи

drawback – недостаток, отрицательная сторона

upgrade – модернизация

3. Give a summary of the text.

4. A) Translate the following advices into English: Если вы используете компьютер в своем бизнесе, то вы должны иметь антивирусные программы и обновлять их постоянно.

Есть два способа избежать заражения компьютерными вирусами: не устанавливать новое программное обеспечение без проверки и не загружать бесплатную информацию из сети.

b) What advices would you give a person buying a computer.

1. Express your opinion to the statements:

1. It is a useless thing to try to protect your computer from viruses.

2. Antivirus programs can protect from any infection.

Text III

1. Read the article from The Observer and find out if these statements correspond to the content of the text:

1. The number of viruses in the Internet has increased.

2. The number of viruses infecting clients' computers has increased because internet traffic has risen.

3. The number of viruses has increased only due to new viruses created every month.

4. The viruses are becoming more and more dangerous.

5. New technologies reduce the potential danger to the internet and economy.

6. The effectiveness of viruses has also increased.

7. Computer viruses have caused great losses.

Viruses infect one email in every 300

Nick Paton Walsh

Sunday January 13, 2002

The Observer

Computer viruses on the internet have risen fivefold in the past two years, with one security firm now finding a bug on clients' servers every 30 seconds on average *.

British analysts have examined emails sent and received in the UK and found that one in 300 is infected, compared with one in 1,500 in 1999 *. More than 400 new viruses are created every month, experts say.

Security firm Messagelabs has warned of a surge in the number of viruses infecting clients' computers. While internet traffic has risen, it discovered that viruses were growing at a faster rate *.

Steve Trilling, director of research at the anti-virus company Symantec Security Response, said the situation would worsen dramatically as technology improved. ‘New technologies will help these viruses become more dangerous. The potential danger to the internet and economy is greater than ever,’ he said.

Last year the Government's internet security service, Uniras, issued a record 26 alerts - high-level warnings about viruses that threaten the national infrastructure – three times as many as in 2000 *. It also issued a record 260 emergency briefings about virus threats.

Messagelabs said the rise was often due to the increased life-span of a virus. 'We see old viruses again and again that never seem to die out,' said Alex Shipp, its chief antivirus technologist. ‘They keep propagating themselves to stay alive.'

The potency of viruses has also increased. Richard Saunders, a spokesman for Symantec, said the greatest problem were 'blended threats' – viruses that used a variety of techniques to infiltrate a system. These include bombarding a computer with emails and leaving a secret program behind to cause damage later.

Last week it was revealed that computer viruses cost firms more than £18 billion globally in 2001. Independent researchers Computer Economics said the 'Love Bug' and 'Code Red II' viruses had caused considerable damage.