What are computer viruses or worms?
Computer viruses and worms are computer programs that are designed to harmfully impact the way your computer works without your knowledge or permission. These malicious computer programs are pieces of programming code that usually comes from the Internet or via e-mail and ‘infect’ your computer or system. Once your computer becomes infected, the virus/worm can spread and do damage to your operating system, your program files, and data and infect other people in your e-mail address book How does my computer get a viruses? Viruses maybe sent to your computer through file sharing, e-mail or downloads from the Internet. The virus program code becomes activated when you open the infected file, boot the computer with and infected disk, or use an infected floppy disk or by ‘clicking’ on an infected program file sent as an attachment. When a computer becomes infected by an e-mail attachment, it can be spread to other users that are in your e-mail address book. Some of the more widely known vir
