The Computer Virus: A closer look (1 of 3)
- Posted by editor on May 2nd, 2008 filed in Information
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by mheo soriano
A Computer Virus is a kind of “Malware†(or malicious software for short) that continuously attempts to spread itself from one file to another.
Computer viruses works a lot like human viruses as they are programs designed to propagate and create copies in the computers hard disk memory and infect other computers as well. This occurs beyond the users awareness.
The belief that viruses are programs designed to destroy or delete hard disk data is a misconception. Because technically speaking, viruses are only designed to make copies of itself and the damage it causes is most often incidental.
Therefore the damage caused by viruses is somewhat “unintentional†and caused by the continuous increase of infected files in the system.
To be continued…