Information About Viruses

Information About Viruses


A growing problem in using computers is computer viruses. Viruses are pesky

little programs that some hacker with too much time on his hands wrote.  Viruses

have been known to create annoyances from displaying messages on the screen,

such as "Your PC is now stoned," to completely obliterating everything that is

contained on the computer's hard disk. Viruses are transferred from computer to

computer in a number of ways. The most common way that users receive viruses at

home are downloading programs off the internet, or off of local Bulletin Board

Systems, or BBSs. These viruses are then transferred to a floppy disk when

written to by the infected computer.  Computers can also be infected when a disk

that is infected with a virus is used to boot the computer. When this computer

is infected, every one who writes a floppy disk on this computer gets their

floppy disk contaminated, and risks getting this virus on This is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now!


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