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    Computer viruses are named as such because they share traits with biological viruses, passing from computer to computer as biological viruses pass between people. Like biological viruses, computer viruses cannot reproduce on their own and must piggyback on programs or documents in order to execute and potentially infect other files or programs. The document goes on to explain that viruses are small pieces of code that attach to programs containing executable macro languages, allowing the virus to run each time the program is used and potentially reproduce by attaching to other programs or files.

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    Computer viruses are named as such because they share traits with biological viruses, passing from computer to computer as biological viruses pass between people. Like biological viruses, computer viruses cannot reproduce on their own and must piggyback on programs or documents in order to execute and potentially infect other files or programs. The document goes on to explain that viruses are small pieces of code that attach to programs containing executable macro languages, allowing the virus to run each time the program is used and potentially reproduce by attaching to other programs or files.

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    And How To Prevent Their Annoying Evil Twin, Virus Hoaxes

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    Computer viruses are named as such because they share traits with biological viruses, passing from computer to computer as biological viruses pass between people. Like biological viruses, computer viruses cannot reproduce on their own and must piggyback on programs or documents in order to execute and potentially infect other files or programs. The document goes on to explain that viruses are small pieces of code that attach to programs containing executable macro languages, allowing the virus to run each time the program is used and potentially reproduce by attaching to other programs or files.

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    HOW THEY GOT THE NAME W H AT T H E Y A R E HOW THEY SPREAD HOW TO PREVENT THEM

    AND HOW TO PREVENT THEIR ANNOYING EVIL TWIN, VIRUS HOAXES

    PC VIRUSES
    HOW THEY GOT THE NAME

    Computer viruses are called viruses because they share some of the traits of biological viruses. A computer virus passes from computer to computer like a biological virus passes from person to person.

    PC VIRUSES
    HOW THEY GOT THE NAME

    A biological virus is not living. Its a fragment of DNA inside a protective jacket. Unlike a cell, a virus has no way to do anything or to reproduce by itself -- it is not alive.
    Computer viruses also can not reproduce by themselves

    PC VIRUSES
    HOW THEY GOT THE NAME

    A biological virus inject itself into a cell And uses the cell's existing machinery to reproduce itself
    A computer virus piggybacks on top of a program or document And reproduces (gets executed) Once running, its able to infect other programs or documents

    PC VIRUSES
    WHAT THEY ARE

    A virus is a small piece of software (code) that piggybacks on real programs, like Excel, that have embedded executable languages Macro languages -- Visual Basic, etc. Each time the program runs the virus runs, too and it has the chance to reproduce (by attaching to other programs) or wreak havoc.

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