What are the viruses of a computer?

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Same as when you get sick, somehow got to you, air, contact, etc. you need a doctor and medicine, some can be cured, some are deadly.


In the computer you got it thru emails, another person disk, or CD(oohh yea), now some can be easy to destroy, some will easily destroy your computer, (no they won't explode), who made them, people like you and me, with a incredible brain that even though is great, has more bad than good, they are programs like any other game, or word or excel (tm), but created to destroy your data, goggle for what is a virus, this are some good pages. Hope this helps.
Reply:There are about 170,000+ for Windows. Do you want to be a bit more specific. Here is a general definition


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vi...
Reply:A computer virus is a type of malicious program that intends to do harm to the computer's hardware (can result in malfunction of hard disk, etc) or software (can steal out confidential information).





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vi...


http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/v/virus.ht...
Reply:Programs college puds' write. If you are connected to the net or share data with other computers you need to buy a anti-virus program. I like Norton.