Computer Virus

    

Computer Virus.

A computer virus is a type of virus that can harm your computer. While some may only play annoying tricks on you, others may delete important files on your computer and possibly prevent it from working.

There are many different types of viruses made to do many different types of functions. Here are a few for an example:

• Trojan Horses - these viruses can appear as either a joke program, or a helpful program that appears to be helping you, but has started up the virus which will destroy important files, harming your computer, or will get data from your computer.

• Worms - worms will make other copies of itself and will find its way around your computer. They can also copy themselves into an email, allowing it to move from one computer to another instantly.

There are ways of preventing your computer from getting viruses. Making a back up of all your files can help save your work/files in case you do happen to get a virus. There are some anti-virus software that can be downloaded in order to find and delete these viruses, such as Norton, or McAfee. Also being careful to not download programs that you do not know are 100% safe.