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Information About Viruses

TitleInformation About Viruses
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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 their computer, which
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