A logic bomb is a sort of program or you can say a part of some program which let itself dormant till a certain logic program is activated. A logic bomb is very comparable to a land mine. Most of a time an activation key for a logic bomb, is a date. The logic bomb keeps checking the system for date and remains in position till the set time is reached. As soon as time has been reached it activates itself.
It can also be made to wait until it gets certain order from the author. Logic bomb is set to check the website of origin once a week to search for the message. As soon as it gets the message the logic bomb, explodes.
They are also made to tally other variables for initiation of spreading viral epidemic across the system. The most dangerous sort of logic bomb virus is one which gets activated at the time while nothing happens. It results in deleting each and everything from the server.
Logic bomb lacks the power to replicate itself so it is an easy task to write a logic bomb. And it would also don’t spread to unintended systems. It is a sort of civilized program threat.
The classic use of this virus is ensuring payment for some software. If you don’t pay for some software then it is certain that embedded logic bomb would be activated and deletes that software from your system. And if more malicious then it would result other data deleting from your system.
