viruses

Viruses

viruses

history

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worms

protection

origins

Virus history

The reasons that led to creating the viruses:

the spread of personal computers the use of computer bulletin boards the floppy disk

virus origins:

Computer viruses are called viruses because they share some of the traits of biological viruses

Virus evolution:

The tricks the virus creators learned:

the ability to load viruses into memory the ability to infect the boot sector on floppy disks and hard disks

WormsA worm is a computer program that has the ability to copy itself from machine to machine

for Protection:

you should run a more secure operating system like UNIX. avoid programs from unknown sourcesmake sure that Macro Virus Protection is enabled in all Microsoft applicationsnever double-click on an e-mail attachment that contains an executable

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