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What is virus ?

20th Dec 2017, 1:06 PM
rajmit kevadiya
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a virus is a form of malware, specifically a self replicating program that installs itself on a computer without the computer's owner knowledge. usually a virus is harmful, to the computer or data.
20th Dec 2017, 1:10 PM
ifl
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even i also don't know from where i have heard that 😂
20th Dec 2017, 1:40 PM
Gaurav Agrawal
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someone told me that ... those who makes "virus" ... are the one who makes antivirus against that //is that true ? ☺
20th Dec 2017, 1:19 PM
Gaurav Agrawal
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A computer virus is a program, script, or macro designed to cause damage, steal personal information, modify data, send e-mail, display messages, or some combination of these actions. ... You can protect your computer from viruses by installing an antivirus protection program. https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/849606/?ref=app https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/194213/?ref=app
20th Dec 2017, 1:09 PM
GAWEN STEASY
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... it is even worse: those who sell diet books put all the calories into the chcolate :-) people love this kind of theories and they are told again and again.
20th Dec 2017, 2:08 PM
Oma Falk
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Definition: A computer virus is a malicious software program loaded onto a user's computer without the user's knowledge and performs malicious actions. Description: The term 'computer virus' was first formally defined by Fred Cohen in 1983. Computer viruses never occur naturally. They are always induced by people. Once created and released, however, their diffusion is not directly under human control. After entering a computer, a virus attaches itself to another program in such a way that execution of the host program triggers the action of the virus simultaneously. It can self-replicate, inserting itself onto other programs or files, infecting them in the process. Not all computer viruses are destructive though. However, most of them perform actions that are malicious in nature, such as destroying data. Some viruses wreak havoc as soon as their code is executed, while others lie dormant until a particular event (as programmed) gets initiated, that causes their code to run in the computer. Viruses spread when the software or documents they get attached to are transferred from one computer to another using a network, a disk, file sharing methods, or through infected e-mail attachments. Some viruses use different stealth strategies to avoid their detection from anti-virus software. For example, some can infect files without increasing their sizes, while others try to evade detection by killing the tasks associated with the antivirus software before they can be detected. Some old viruses make sure that the "last modified" date of a host file stays the same when they infect the file.
20th Dec 2017, 1:20 PM
James16
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As a precaution, install antivirus in your PC 😉 Try Avast
20th Dec 2017, 1:10 PM
Muhd Khairul Amirin
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Maybe true|| false
20th Dec 2017, 1:20 PM
Muhd Khairul Amirin
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Rajmit Kevadiya ☞ ☞ A computer virus is a type of malicious software program ("malware") that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code. Infected computer programs can include, as well, data files, or the "boot" sector of the hard drive. When this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be "infected" with a computer virus.
20th Dec 2017, 3:30 PM
BINYAM GIRMA SEYOUM
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How To creat virus program?
20th Dec 2017, 2:56 PM
BINYAM GIRMA SEYOUM
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bini ze arada -- first of all u know what is virus ?
20th Dec 2017, 3:15 PM
rajmit kevadiya
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@Gaurav. those who told you that do not know what they are talking about. If you ask them where they got this idea from, they will either say it is their guess, or that they just heard it from someone else.
20th Dec 2017, 1:27 PM
ifl
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@Bini Ze Arada. you woild have to ask yourself why you need to know, and what you expect when asking here :-D
20th Dec 2017, 4:28 PM
ifl
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