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Viruses

A Virus is a small program or piece of computer code that can be loaded onto your computer without your knowledge and runs against your wishes. All computer viruses are manmade and in some cases they can also replicate themselves. A simple virus that can make a copy of itself over and over again is relatively easy to produce. Even such a simple virus is dangerous because it will quickly use all available memory and bring the system to a halt. An even more dangerous type of virus is one capable of transmitting itself across networks and bypassing security systems.

Here are some anti virus resource sites. These sites contain various information and resources to combat the latest crop of computer viruses:

Hoaxes

Other than viruses we are also vulnerable to what is known as Hoaxes. These are communications or contacts by unscrupulous people especially designed to deceive and lurer the recipient into parting with important personal information eg: bank account numbers etc. or a fictitious plea to send money or to follow an instruction which could delete data from your computer. Whatever the latest ploy might be the following sites will have information about it.