Kinsley and Munge

Professor Kinsley, teacher by day, hacker by night, spends all his time in his basement lab developing viruses to terrorize the internet. Unfortunately for him, Peter Dempsey, the secret weapon of First Protection’s elite anti-virus squad, is always on his trail. With the help of his friends, the Guiders, Checkers, and Dumpy packets who live in our computers, Peter tries to protect Packet World while trying to live the life of a normal teenager.

Tuareg

Common name: Tuareg

Technical name: W32/Tuareg

Threat level: Low

Alias: Win32/Driller

Type: Virus

Virus Family: Polymorphic

Purpose: Virus writers created polymorphic viruses to confuse and defeat virus scanning programs. These viruses are difficult to detect by scanning because each copy of the virus looks different than the other copies. Polymorphic code mutates while keeping the original algorithm intact.

Effect: Tuareg infects files with the following extensions: EXE (programs), SCR (screensavers), and CPL (Windows Control Panel units).

When EXE files are infected, they may become damaged.

Tuareg modifies the home page of the Internet Explorer browser. When the system’s calendar registers Friday, Tuareg changes the home page of the Internet Explorer browser to www.thehungersite.com.

Tuareg captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy.

Affected platforms: Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95

Infection Route: Tuareg reaches computers through means normally used by viruses; CD-ROMs; e-mail messages with infected attachments; Internet downloads; FTP; etc.

Visible Symptom: It is very easy to recognize Tuareg as it changes the home page of Internet Explorer to www.thehungersite.com.

Watch Tuareg come to life:

www.peterspackets.com/bio

1. Click on the sleeping monitor with your mouse.
2. Drag the magnifying glass over the three-headed frog-looking virus.
3. With the magnifying glass over the top, click with your mouse. (Ta da)

We realize the importance of early learning for young students in the field of computer science. The importance and needs for growth here in the US was never more evident when Bill Gates went before congress in 2008 with these main points taken from that transcript:

"As rapidly as science and technology have advanced over the past 50 years, I believe these advances will pale in comparison to the innovations of the next 50 years, or even the next 10 years.

First, we face a critical shortfall of skilled scientists and engineers who can develop new breakthrough technologies. Second, the public and private sectors are no longer investing in basic research and development (R&D) at the levels needed to drive long-term innovation."

There is a major concern within the United States that we are failing in staying competitive in our next generation needs of both Technology and Engineering. This point is driven home by the haunting words that Bill Gate uttered as well back then stating "I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce."

Our goal is two fold in first bringing excitement and awareness of the technology world through entertainment (books, comic books, games, amusement rides/parks) to our young generation using cyber as the subject content in hopes of driving our next generation of students towards achieving degrees in the science and technology industry.

Second is to give back and help fund the different means to help educate 'all' our young through opportunities in such important areas as Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.