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Notorious: having an exceedingly bad reputation
Virus: A dangerous computer program with the characteristic feature of being able to generate copies of itself, and thereby spread throughout the computer system. |
| Viruses are just computer programs, however very destructive ones. They are made the same way other programs are, through coding, with the intent of destroying a computer, or just annoying its user. |
| How should users protect themselves? |
| Use a well known anti virus software and update it frequently also educate any users of that computer on safe internet surfing. |