Information About Viruses
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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 every ....
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.... PCs, viruses will only
infect executable programs, such as the .EXE and .COM files. On a Macintosh, any
file can be contaminated. A disk can also be infected even without any files on
it. These viruses are called BOOT SECTOR viruses. These viruses reside on the
part of the floppy disk, or hard disk that store the information so that these
disks can be used, and is loaded into memory each time the computer is booted by
one of these disks.
DON'T DESPAI ....
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