What is malware in general and in particular a virus

Computer Architecture and Diagnostics
Assignment: Research Problem 5 (60 points)

Read the Research Problem #1 from Chapter 11 in your textbook on page 433

• The Research Problem should include 2 pages
o This does not include title pages or reference pages
o This is at least 2 FULL written pages

1. Summary of the research problem

a. This should be thorough enough (but not plagiarized (meaning in your own words)) to give a reader a very good idea of:

i. What is malware in general and in particular a virus
ii. What is a buffer overflow

iii. How does a virus (or maybe other malware) exploit bugs in a software
iv. What is Data Execution Prevention (DEP)