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viruses
Viruses
viruses
history
evolutio
n
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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