Volume 4 , Issue 1 , December 2001 , Pages 45-50
Amera I. Melhum 1 ; Susan A. Mahmood 2
1 College of Science, University of Duhok
2 College of Science, University of Sulaimani
A computer virus is a piece of self-replicating code, that is code which can make copies of itself is such a way as to infect parts of operating system or environment.
In this study a new virus has been created "947" virus, which is a memory-resident parasitic. It is capable of infecting COM and EXE files an adds 947 bytes to the length of infected files. The scanning & cleaning programs has been created also