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How Viruses Contaminate Your Computer
By Jordi Shoman
Viruses are little bits of software that normally have a negative impact on our computers when they are activated. Usually viruses are attached onto other software programs (games, disk utilities, office documents/Macros, screen-savers), and are activated when these normally harmless programs are started.
A virus is inactive until the infected program is run or an infected boot record on a floppy/CD is read. When the virus is activated it loads into your computer's memory where it can perform its nasty job or spread itself to other programs on your system or computers in your network.
Floppy disks used in an infected system (or CD-Roms/DVDs burned on an infected system) can then car...
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