Many people theses days own a computer, but the problem is that the owner doesn't know the dangers of having a computer. One of the worse things that can happen to a computer is it can be infected by a virus. A virus may simply cause a harmless joke to appear each time the computer is turned on; A more damaging virus can cause major problems within a few minutes. These major problems can cause a computer to crash, which will destroy valuable data. Some of the things that people need to learn are how to protect their computer from viruses, and how to become more informed on the kinds of viruses, and how they can learn what viruses do to a computer.
            
             The first thing people should learn is what a virus really is, and how it effects the computer. A virus is a set of instructions that attaches to computer programs, and becomes apart of them. A virus has the ability to clone itself, so that it can multiply to attach itself to other programs. After a virus has effected a computer it can cause many things to happen. Some of those things are: loss of user confidence in the system, loss of productivity, lost data, corrupted files, loss of access to data, or even causing a system to crash. (See fig. 1 in appendix) When a system crashes that means that you get nothing back, and your computer is useless. One question that many people have is "Why are viruses problems?" One reason a virus causes problems is simply that some effort must be made to find and remove it. Another is that it costs to fix the problem, if it can be fixed.
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             Another thing people should know is if something they hear is a myth or not. There are a lot of myths that have came up about the threat of computer viruses. There are myths about how dangerous they are how widespread they are, and even about what a computer virus really is. One myth is all purposely-destructive code spreads like a virus. Very few purposely-destructive codes actually qualif...