Viruses!

1. Viruses can duplicate themselves over and over again. (Click here for the source.)
2. You can get a virus from another computer, networks, disks, and modems. (Click here for the source.)
3. Definition-"A virus is a computer program that was written to purposely damage computer systems."(Click here for the source.)
4. There are several types of viruses. One type is called a Trojan Horse virus, which spreads to other computer programs and turns them into Trojan Horse viruses. (Click here for the source.)
5. What is a WORM? It's a type of virus. It's a set of programs that spreads copies of itself to other computers. WORMS do not need themselves to a host program. (Click here for the source.)
6. Computer viruses are called viruses because they are similar to biological viruses. For example, biological viruses spread from one person to another if they interat, it's the same principal with computers. If a computer with a virus emails an attatchment to another virus, the other computer may get the virus. (Click here for the source.)
7. There are some viruses that can trick anti-virus software by intercepting its requests to the operating system.(Click here for the source.)
8. Most viruses attack Windows operating systems. (Click here for the source.)
9. One of the first viruses created and spread was in 1982 and it was called Elk Cloner. It would ttack Apple II systems. (Click here for the soruce.
10. Another definition of a computer virus is a self-replicating [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program ]computer program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable ]executable code or documents.

    Quiz

    Question one!
    What does a virus do?
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    Question two!
    What do viruses go in to?
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    Question three!
    What do you get to protect your computer from a virus?
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    Answers!
    
    Answer one!
    It breaks down your computer.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Answer two!
    Computer, networks, disks and modems
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Answer three!
    A firewall.