Computer Viruses

A computer virus is an illegal and potentiallly damaging computer program designed to infect other software by attaching itself to any software it contacts. In many cases virus programs are designed to damage computer systems maliciously by destroying or corrupting data. If the infected software is transferred to or accessed by another computer system, the virus spreads to the other system. Virsus have become a serious problem in recent years and currently, thousands of known virus programs exist. (Reed 85-102).

Three types of viruses are boot sector virus, file virusl and the trojan horse virus.When the infected boot program executes, the virus it loaded into the computer's memory. Once a virus is in memory, it can spread to any flop...