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A Look Into The Computer Virus
Most of us swap disks with friends and browse the Net looking for downloads.
Rarely do we ever consider that we are also exchanging files with anyone and
everyone who has ever handled them in the past. If that sounds like a warning
about social diseases, it might as well be.
Computer viruses are eve ....
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.... something devious to the computer system while appearing to do
something useful (Microsoft Encarta, 1996). A Worm is also a popular type of
virus. A worm is a program that spreads itself across computers, usually by
spawning copies of itself in each computer's memory. A worm might duplicate
itself in one computer so often that it causes the computer to crash. Sometimes
written in separate "segments," a worm is introduced secretly into a host system
either for "fun" or with intent to damage or destroy information. The term ‘
Worm' comes from a science-fiction (Microsoft E ....
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