Viruses

What I know about viruses so far:

- There are many different types of viruses, some are named like, "Trojan horse" "phishing" etc. There's various things that must be taken into consideration when you're deciding on whether something is a virus. There's also many ways to make and use them. Viruses are usually implanted by opening a file or website that contains them, then they sit in your computer, and even if you have an antivirus, it can't always detect whether you just downloaded a virus or not. There is keyboard tracking, in which a person puts a bug into your computer that sends them all of the things you've typed, and that is commonly used for getting passwords to your accounts. Spyware is just where they can look at what you're doing on your computer and they can access your files, Webcam hacking allows them to turn your webcam and microphone on, and by this they can get a lot of your personal information, like where you live, let's say, if you were talking to a friend on the phone and you told them your address. I know a lot more but I don't want to explain the whole thing.

Questions: What are some of the well known viruses?
How are viruses created?

- The ILOVEYOU virus was a very impacting and large virus. Released on May 5, 2000, It was sent to tens of millions of windows users, and it  damaged the computer, overwrote image files, messed around with visual basics (which it was also created in), and cost more than 5.5 billion dollars in damages.

- The Melissa Macro virus started in 1999, via email. It arrived in a text (word 97, usually) document attachment, and when the user opened it, it spread to all of the other documents that they owned. If they sent an infected document, it would then spread to the person who opens it. Sometimes, it would send user documents instead of the original file, so then they could send infected sensitive documents instead of the original infected file.

-Trojan horses are usually disguised as a videogame, but they do damage when you try to open it. They cannot replicate automatically, but they can cause major damage to the local computer, like wiping out the hard drive and all of the files in it.

- Common viruses overwrite everything, and often self replicate.

- The code red and code red II worms buffer overflowed everything, so thats when the computer started to replace files. It was released in 2001. The first one tried to contact the white house's web servers all at once, which overloaded the machines.

Links;

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/worst-computer-viruses4.htm

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1999-04.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2000-05-04/tech/iloveyou.01_1_melissa-virus-antivirus-companies-iloveyou-virus?_s=PM:TECH

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU

I can connect to this because i used to have a phobia viruses, and also my sister accidentally downloaded one of these viruses, and caused our computer to turn to a worthless piece of junk.

Google Day 1

Goals:
1. Learn how to paint clouds on Photoshop, by using tutorials and helpful speedpaints and videos.
2. Learn how to shade the clouds realistically, and how to make the hues realistic and appealing to the eyes.
3 If I finish that, I'll try the same thing, but with grass.

Helpful links I used: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/painting/paint-clouds/ A simple yet helpful and short tutorial video for begginers, I used this for the majority of my time
http://www.photoshopwebsite.com/photoshop-tutorials/21-clouds-making-photoshop-tutoial/  Many different ways to paint various styles of clouds.
Below is my progress for this class; I learned how to paint clouds and use opacities and gradients for the sky and grass.

Also, next class i would like to learn how to paint/draw cloths and their creases and wrinkles and shading them.

GOOGLE 20%

One of the skills I would like to learn during this project is how to shade realistically on Photoshop/ other digital art programs. I would like to learn how to make it look 'painted', and how to deal with the positions of light, blending, and hues. Another thing that adds onto that is how to customize brushes on digital art programs, to fit how I want it to look. I would like to learn how to 'paint' digitally, and that requires knowledge of opacities, textures, shades etc. I would also like to learn how to paint or just draw background items such as grass, clouds, perhaps buildings, and other things.

I will present how and what I learned by maybe recording a speedpaint of what I drew with the skills i required during the 7 hours. A speedpaint is basically when you record yourself drawing something, from beginning to end, and because it might take so long, you speed it up a bit so it won't be a 5 hour long video. I will explain how to do each of the things by pausing the video or slowing it down, and explain the process in a simple fashion. I already have screen recording technology, but I might need something that will record longer, so I might need to research more on that. That is how I will (hopefully, if I can figure it out) present what I learned to you.

LINK

C/C website