Information About Viruses

Part I of Essay
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 comp ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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 DESPAIR! Despite all of what has just been said, viruses are controllable. Their is software called Virus Protection Software. A couple ....