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Have you ever opened an email attachment from someone you don't recognise
or downloaded a program from a source you don't know?
If you have, the chances are that your computer could be infected by
a virus.
But this is not the only way your computer can catch an infection!
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Search engines on the web are a good
starting point for finding information about
computer viruses. Some good ones are:
Please note that the Â鶹Éç is not responsible
for the content of other websites.
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What is a virus?
A virus is a small piece of software, maliciously created, which embeds
itself into a program. Each time the program runs the virus will be activated
and, depending on how it was made, will infect other files, programs and
could, in a worst case scenario, cause your computer to crash completely.
It is called a virus because like the human variety the infection can
be spread to other computers and it will try to infect as many files as
possible.
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Not all viruses will cause your
computer to crash - some are just irritating.
Others can corrupt data, like changing numbers on a spreadsheet. |
Go to the next screen to have a look at different types of infections.
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