COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS A COMPUTER VIRUS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Programmer
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User
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Brain, the first PC virus, began infecting 5.2” floppy disks in 1986. As Securelist reports, it was the work of two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who ran a computer store in Pakistan.
Detailed explanation-2: -Definition(s): A computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. A virus might corrupt or delete data on a computer, use e-mail programs to spread itself to other computers, or even erase everything on a hard disk. See malicious code.
Detailed explanation-3: -Computer viruses are manmade; more specifically, a computer programmer created them. Programmers write useful programs too. But every single virus is written by a programmer who knows exactly what they are up to.