A virus is a piece of code that can attach itself to a program or file.
A virus can spread from computer to computer.
A virus could try to damage your software, your
hardware or your files
A virus can infect your computer without your permission or with you not knowing or
A virus can delete all your files. It is very hard to remove it from your computer. Some viruses do not do anything to your computer.
Some viruses stop you from being able to use your computer.
Some viruses do nothing harmful. There is viruses that spread themselves about without doing anything dangerous.
You would get lots of pop ups asking you to download things.
•Memory Resident Viruses
•Trojan Horses
•Worms
•Email Viruses
•Bootsector Virus•Macro Virus
•Rootkit Virus•Polymorphic Viruses•Logic Bombs/Time Bombs
•ILOVEYOU virus•Melissa •Happy99
By not clicking on a link when getting an
e-mail.
By install anti-virus software every time
it offers it to you.
Do not use disks that
other people gave you
Do not click on pop ups that come up on
you computer
They can slow down your computer when
being updated.
Some cost a lot of money
Some anti-virus software you get online
which could be a con
Ones that are cheap don’t work very well
A hacker is someone who gets into your computer and can access you files without you
knowing.
People who hack other people are called hacker. They
are cyber criminals.
Hackers can get into your internet when you go to bed at night and leave your computer
on.
There is only a very small amount of hackers in the
world.
They could get your personal
information, such as credit
card details.
A hacker could install a program onto you computer.
Some hackers put a program into your computer. This
means hackers can do things.
Hackers can write new files, delete files, edit files and doanything to your computer.
A fire wall, it preventsunauthorised intrusions intoyour computer system and
allows authorised access only
Update your computer with some software, you can
just ask your parents if they will do It for you
Turn your computer off at night before you go to bed
by keeping your windows
operating system up to date
Because if your computer breaks or you get hackedyou will always have you
files still.
Another bad storage
media are floppy disks.That hard drive will not live
forever.
probably you have everything
saved on your PCs hard drive.
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