Computer Virus

Computer Virus

Computer virus are human-made software that can affect another computer programs by modifying them in such a way as to include a copy of itself. The first virus named The Elk Cloner written in 1982 by Rich Skrenta who was a 15-year old high school student. This virus spread to another PC by infecting the floppy diskette that was inserted into the computer. Once a floppy diskette became infected it would infect all other computers that disk was inserted into, each computer that was infected would then infected another diskette inserted into it.

Some viruses are relatively harmless to individuals. They attach themselves to outgoing messages on your e-mail or e-mail themselves to all contacts listed in your address book. The sudden flood of e-mail overwhelms mail servers that causing the system to crash. Another viruses are more destructive and may lie dormant until a certain date. Then they spring to life to do their dirty deeds. Sometimes a strange message appears on your screen, or data and programs may be modified. In the worst case, all the files on your hard drive may be deleted.

Today a computer virus is a software, script, or macro that has been designed to infect, modify, destroy or cause any problems to the computer or software programs. Users can protect themselves and remove any viruses on the computer by installing an antivirus protection program, which is designed to detect, protect, and clean any computer viruses.

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