what do u mean by the term VIRUS?
@contactsmiley (85)
India
February 6, 2009 3:41am CST
hii frnds i have been listening soo often to this so called term VIRUS.can anybody take the pain of xplaining me what actually this word means in terms of electronic media?? how can on infuse this into their pcs? Do we have any kind of preventive measures to stop this attack. and also what r the measures to be followed if the system is infected wid the virus.And also want to know whether this term colud effect either software or hardware or for both of them.
7 responses
@aspnaren (314)
• India
6 Feb 09
You have several question and I will answer it one by one...
1.Virus is a destructive program,written by programers to create damage to data stored in our computer.These codes are very difficult to code and these are created by programmer with great programming skills,
2.Yes,we can prevent virus from entering our pc or laptop or any other computing device,by just installing the antivirus softwares
3.If you have virus in you computer,you just have to scan your system with anti virus software and delete the found virus
4.No,mostly viruses affect only the software it cannot affect the hardware directly...
@niyati99 (3)
• India
7 Feb 09
I wish to draw your attention to the fact that there are viruses that affect hardware also. They corrupt the boot prom and memory device. Though there are very rare and subject to many prior condition before they can infect hardware.
@uniquestar (793)
• India
10 Feb 09
my my.....i think the people here have give you all the information you need....and even more......:-)
after reading all this i am not left with much to say...ha ha.
happy mylotting....and beware of virus...
have a nice day..:-)
@saichandtalluri (1486)
• India
7 Feb 09
VIRUS is a code which has ability to damage the data or modify the data or even delete some data. This code is developed by some experts i say them experts because it difficult to understand the operating system and design a code such that it damages the operating system.
we have many anti-virus software to make our computer safe form virus attacks.
@prasanna1990 (816)
• India
6 Feb 09
ya virus definition to my knowledge is VITAL INFORMATION AND RESOURSES UNDER SIEGE this is the definition of virus in scientific term happy myloting
@user_786 (1338)
•
6 Feb 09
What ever shape, color, type the Virus is, it is dangerous. In Computing, Virus is very dangerous for Pc or Mac. It damages the file, it can disturb the whole system, it can erase your data , consume PC's resources to make it run very slow and it does much more things than these.
@cool_jidson (14)
• Nigeria
6 Feb 09
Viruses are code written in programming languages to destroy systems. If you learn how to program, you'll surely know how to write viruses. Viruses doesn't just affect computer systems alone, they affect all digital devices that has the ability to store data.
Viruses can be useful sometimes, though. I can actually write a virus that will copy all the files on your P.C. and send it to mine immediately you logon to the internet, and then, all your files will be deleted afterwards.
It's quite fun!...
@amitksing (1323)
• India
6 Feb 09
A computer virus is a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer. It has been named as a virus since it is as harmful for the computer as biologic viruses are for human body.
Viruses can enter your system in many ways, the primary one being Internet. Other media are Flash drives and all kind of other removable media are capable of carrying viruses into your system.
The best way to fight a viral attach is to install a good anti virus program. Also, do not execute any unknown file or any suspicious file.
Most of the viruses infect only the software. But some viruses like the Boot Viruses are capable of damaging the hardware as well, primarily attacking on the memory devices.
