Viruses

Virus is a harmful program that can damage your computer, your programs and important documents. Viruses are usually written by unprincipled programmers that want to test their professionalism or prove the world that they are cool or even by security specialists. Such viruses are intended to make concrete damage for certain person or corporation, inflict a loss and steal confidential information. However, very often such viruses go out of control and spread over large amount of computers.
You can get infected by virus in a lot of ways. For example, you can simply run unknown program or serf in the Internet and suddenly find out that you computer start behaving rather strange. You can found for example, that there is a critical error when you try to run some program which was working well yesterday. Our you computer suddenly come alive and performs some unusual actions. Such viruses are commonly not very dangerous because you can quickly find them with popular anti virus programs or with True Sword. But there is another category of viruses which don't reveal itself with some special actions. But at some moment this virus can be activated either by timer or by remote command. Ñonsequences may be very sorrowful: physical damage of expensive computer parts and complete loss of important information.

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