Info@...About ''Virus''
A computer virus is a software
program that was first written Rich
Skrenta in 1982 who was a 15-year
old high school student. Known as
The Elk Cloner this virus spread to
other computers by monitoring the
floppy drive and copying itself to any
floppy diskette that was inserted
into the computer. Once a floppy
diskette became infected it would
infect all other computers that disk
was inserted into, each computer
that was infected would then infect
every floppy diskettes inserted into
it. A computer that was infected
would also display a short poem on
every 50th boot.
Computer users can help protect
themselves against computer
viruses, malware, and other
computer security threats by
installing an antivirus protection
program.
A computer virus is a software
program that was first written Rich
Skrenta in 1982 who was a 15-year
old high school student. Known as
The Elk Cloner this virus spread to
other computers by monitoring the
floppy drive and copying itself to any
floppy diskette that was inserted
into the computer. Once a floppy
diskette became infected it would
infect all other computers that disk
was inserted into, each computer
that was infected would then infect
every floppy diskettes inserted into
it. A computer that was infected
would also display a short poem on
every 50th boot.
Computer users can help protect
themselves against computer
viruses, malware, and other
computer security threats by
installing an antivirus protection
program.