Sanket and Swapnil Barot

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Viruses

A virus is a program that gets on your hard drive and deletes programs. One will also lock up files. Some will delete your passwords. Every virus does something different. Some viruses have weird names such as groovier, Jack the Ripper and tequila. The way the viruses are made is through programming computer programs such as COBOL, basic, c, and, Java. You should be careful when you download something from the Internet because it may have a virus. Opening E-mail can also transfer viruses. You should have an antivirus program on your computer. One example of a network antivirus program is LANDesk. Two of the more popular personal programs are McAfee and Norton. One bad virus is Sunday-1 On Sundays; the virus displays the following message:

"Today is Sunday! Why do you work so hard?

All work and no play make you a dull boy!

Come on! Let's go out and have some fun!"

The virus increases infected files by 1636 bytes.

Another example of a virus is Friday The 13^th On Friday the 13th, Jerusalem loads into memory for 30 minutes, after which it deletes any file the user attempts to execute. On other days, Jerusalem slows down the computer system 30 minutes after each infection. It also wipes out an area of the screen, usually called the "black window," or "black box." A bug in the virus can cause .EXE files to be infected repeatedly until they become too large to execute.

So take care of your computer and always have a virus protection program. Always be careful when you open a floppy disk because it might have a virus. When you download anything from the internet always scan

- JMD Computer

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