Computer Viruses And Their Effects On Your PC

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Modify the genetic information of a
cell other than previous one. It performs tasks. New viruses grow in the
infected cell itself. An infected program may not exhibit symptoms for a
while. Not all cells with which the virus contact are infected. Viruses can
mutate and thus cannot clearly be diagnosed. Infected cells aren't infected more
than once by the same cell.

Computer Virus Effects

Attack specific programs (*.com,*.exe) Manipulate the program: The infected
program produces virus programs. The infected program can work without error for
a long time. Program can be made immune against certain viruses. Virus program
can modify themselves & possibly escape detection this way. Programs are
infected only once by most viruses.


There are many ways a virus can infect you system. One way is, if the
virus is a file infecting virus, when you run a file infected with that virus.
This particular kind of virus can only infect if YOU run the program! This
virus targets COM and EXE ...

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uses your disk into a computer. The
third way, is the Internet. A lot of programs on the Internet contain live
viruses. However, there seems to be countless numbers of ways to become
infected. Every time you download a program from somewhere or borrow a disk
from a friend, you are taking a risk of getting infected.

Computer software bought in stores have been know to carry viruses. “
How? CD-ROMS are non-recordable?” A virus may be installed into a computer at
the time of manufacturing. In September of 1996, the September edition of
Microsoft SPCD has a file infected with a virus called “Wazzu”. Watch out for
SIAMKTOOLSCASEED3905A.DOC. Microsoft aided the spread of Wazzu ...

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