How Computer Viruses Work?

How Computer Viruses Work?

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Simple answer:

By corrupting your information.



Long answer:

A 'virus' is a program that embeds itself within another program. Once it has deep-seated the code that the programmer wants to run it have the ability to:

Destroy notes

Collect data

Send background

Modify data

Replicate itself to other programs



A virus can do other things also but not fixed to:

Set your computer up as a relay agent.

Set your computer email system up to spam other email accounts.

Set your computer up to falsify identity.



Your main safeguard against a virus or Trojan program is your firewall, then the anti-virus program, you should also hold a Trojan scanner program.



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Open any trellis site page.and keep fingers on the

CTRL+N....for sometime and you will know how it work........
Computer virus tend to grab our attention. On the one paw, viruses show us how adjectives we are. A properly engineered virus can have an amazing effect on the worldwide Internet. On the other mitt, they show how sophisticated and interconnected human beings have become.

For example, experts estimate that the Mydoom worm infected approximately a quarter-million computers within a single day contained by January 2004. Back in March 1999, the Melissa virus be so powerful that it forced Microsoft and a number of other awfully large companies to completely turn sour their e-mail systems until the virus could be contained. The ILOVEYOU virus in 2000 have a similarly devastating effect. That's pretty impressive when you consider that the Melissa and ILOVEYOU virus are incredibly simple