Typically this is by email, but it can be by browsing an infected website, by being connected to the internet, or by swapping or using an infected disk or memory stick. In other words, the way that the virus is passed on from user to user. The first stage of becoming infected with a virus involves virus replication and distribution. A virus does not just appear out of nowhere and it is possible to try and “minimise the risk.”
Most users are aware of the possibility of “getting a virus” but they are not aware of the various stages involved in this process. The method for distributing a virus and getting the virus to actually do something has evolved, what was true yesterday is not necessarily true today – and vice versa. Over this time the words “computer virus” have come to mean many different things. Computer viruses have been around for almost as long as the PC itself.
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