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Ever wondered how a computer virus spreads?

Filed Under (Blogging, Computers, How To, Software, Technology News) by Tricia on 13-07-2007

If you’ve always wonder just how a computer virus works and or spreads you should take a look at this video.

Not surprisingly, computer virus work in a similar manner to that of human virus in that it just takes one virus to infect something and it spreads from there.

Check out this video from “How things Work”:

As the video says, if you don’t have anti-virus protection on your computer you are just asking for a big problem. I use Norton Anti-virus because it comes free with my ISP, but there are some very good free antivirus programs out there such as AVG.

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Comments:

6 Responses to “Ever wondered how a computer virus spreads?”

1. Bobbink (1 comments.) on 14 Jul 2007 at 7:00 pm #
   
   

   Thanks for sharing!
2. JasonJ (1 comments.) on 15 Jul 2007 at 2:19 pm #
   
   

   Nice video. I’ve heard of AVG but haven’t used it yet. Maybe on my next computer.
3. Affiliate Marketing (0 comments.) on 15 Jul 2007 at 2:25 pm #
   
   

   Slightly dated video (the newest viruses are e-mail viruses) but all the same great content. Thanks for the share!
4. Tricia (34 comments.) on 15 Jul 2007 at 2:47 pm #
   
   

   Jason AVG is supposed to be the best free anti virus program. Some say it’s even better than many of the paid ones.
5. Tricia (34 comments.) on 15 Jul 2007 at 2:49 pm #
   
   

   Affiliate marketing? A name would be nice if feels weird addressing someone this way .. anyway .. why do you say the video is dated? It does talk about email virus’ at the end.
6. SEO Specialist (1 comments.) on 15 Jul 2007 at 8:58 pm #
   
   

   I hate paying to update that stupid virus protection but I know as soon as I don’t, I’ll get a virus.