Virus combat: Promoting awareness on viruses through video game

Abstract

Technology nowadays are vastly growing and by that the number of virus are also increasing each day. There were 60,000 known viruses, Trojans, worms, and variations and today there are well over 100,000 known computer viruses. In addition, studies and researches show that a computer connected to the Internet may experience an attack every 39 seconds. The purpose of this research is promote the importance of computer viruses using computer game platform. In Malaysia, there are still less effort of using new media on preventing computer virus and Malaysian society are still lacking of knowledge and awareness on how to avoid their computer from getting occurrence or harmed by virus. Furthermore, this research will also assess the efficiency of the 3D game prototype among selected respondents.