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Do you know what a computer virus is? If not, does this cause you fear or hesitation in your day today use of a computer? Or are you more afraid of the technical explanation you would get if you were bold enough to ask? If you read this essay I will attempt to in such a way if you know nothing about computer, you feel more confident just for having read it. Of course the best protection is to understand what it is that we are dealing with so let us start there.It is easiest to think o a computer virus as similar to that a biological virus. A computer virus also needs a host to infect. In this case it infects a program. Microsoft word, Internet Explorer and computer games like solitaire are some examples of programs. They are made up of what is called code. Code is basically instructions telling the program what to do. A computer virus attaches itself to this code and, like a biological virus; its first mission is to infect other programs. What does this happen? Very simply, when the infect program is run, the virus relocates itself into another program. This program in turn may infect another when it is run. I use the word “may” here
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Approximate Word count = 773
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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