Truth And Lies About The Computer Virus
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Walk into any computer store today and there will be at least twenty or
thirty computer virus programs. From the looks of it computer viruses have
gotten out of hand and so has the business of stopping it. The computer user
must cut through the media hype of apocoliptic viruses and shareware pro ....
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.... to do is distort the truth. There is no
organization that certifies wheather or not a virus is real. Even more
potentially harmful is that the anti-virus companies could write viruses in
order to sell their programs. Software companies have and do distort the truth
about viruses. "Antivirus firms tend to count even the most insignificant
variations of viruses for advertising purposes. When the Marijuana virus first
appeared, for example, it contained the word "legalise," but a miscreant later ....
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