How does a computer virus affect a

computer?
A Virus is something that deletes your files and makes your computer slow.

Viruses exploit vulnerabilities that your computer may have. They can replicate in networks,
infecting many computers (just like human viruses). More than often, viruses are designed to
inhibit a computer's performance, however, viruses can do many things- display obscene
messages, delete files, apparent hardware malfunctions, 'freeze' the system, 'swap around'
keyboard characters etc.

Some sort of virus that makes desktop completely blank white! one cant click or anything, once one logs
in. However, one’s screen before I log in and when I press cntrl alt delete, is completely fine. Only one’s
desktop is blank white. One cant get one’s task manager open either. When I restart though, when one
is being logged out, one can see one’s desktop and all one’s icons for a brief second.

I seem to have some sort of virus o one’s computer. Basically all the icons keep moving around .
Everything else is fine, and if I right-click, then click arrange icons, I can access everything if I do it
immediately, but after a few seconds the icons start moving and run away from the mouse.

, too have a crazy desktop. Sometimes the icons all fly to one corner of the desktop and gather there
until I move the mouse and they go elsewhere. I have to sneak up on an icon in order to click it.
Also one’s games seem to be affected. The pointer is very slow and on a ball game the ball is very slow.

I noticed that one’s laptop speakers were making weird noises when I played music (a bit like a jumpy
CD) and the system was running slow.

Some viruses can be nasty and destroy all your data while others can just be a pure nuisance.  Then
there is the virus which deleted all desktop shortcuts and desktop icons.  While this does not happen
all the time, it does happen.

Love Letter

The fastest spreading virus in history appears to have been written by a resident of Manila in the
Philippines. Sent via e-mail in May 2000 with "I LOVE YOU" in the subject field, it replicated
itself to everyone in the user's Outlook address book and then destroyed local files. Love Letter
forced numerous organizations to shut down their e-mail systems, as computer users were far too
willing to let love into their lives.
CIH (a.k.a. Chernobyl)

This virus, written by Taiwanese student Chen Ing-Hau, triggers on the anniversary of the
Chernobyl meltdown. The virus attacks the BIOS chip on the computer, effectively paralyzing
your entire PC.

Melissa

David L. Smith, 31, named his virus after a stripper he knew in Florida. His virus created chaos
in March 1999 when it spread around the world in a day, clogging up e-mail systems and
inserting quotes from Bart Simpson into documents. Smith admitted causing over $80 million
worth of damage to North American businesses.

Nimda

Meaning "admin" spelled backwards and launched in September 2001, this denial-of-service
worm flooded hard disks on more than a million clients and servers on the Internet. Perhaps the
most complex virus ever created, it used various flaws in Microsoft's Web server and browser
software to unleash itself without the user's knowledge.

911

No relation to 9/11 in New York, the 911 virus was seen in Houston, Texas. It takes over the
computer modem and dials emergency services.

Kylie

This virus, fortunately rarely encountered, plays the pint-sized Australian popster's song "Never
too late" through your PC speaker.

SMEG

"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast! Unfortunately most of your data won't!" The
Simulated Metamorphic Encryption Generator viruses, written by the Black Baron, trashed hard
disks up and down the country in the mid-1990s. The author, Christopher Pile, was a fan of the
Red Dwarf series and ended up being sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Nuclear

This word macro virus adds a paragraph to the end of every document you print protesting
against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
Coffeeshop

Written by the Trident virus writing gang based in the Netherlands, the Coffeeshop virus
displays a large cannabis leaf on the screen of your PC and urges the government to legalize
marijuana.

Casino

Casino was written on the island of Malta and plays Russian Roulette with your hard disk. If you
get the number wrong, you lose everything.

How to Remove the Desktop.ini Virus

A computer virus can cause certain programs on your computer to malfunction.

Desktop.ini is a computer virus. A computer virus is a program that has the ability to copy itself
and spread from one computer to another. Computer viruses are generally designed to complete
some malicious act. For example, a computer virus may slow your computer, disable certain
programs, change your desktop and Internet settings, cause your computer to crash, make your
disk drives inaccessible or flood your computer with pop-up advertisements. While it is best to
prevent viruses from ever entering your computer, if you get a virus you should remove it as
quickly as possible.

How to Get Rid of a Desktop Virus

A computer virus can slow your computer.

A computer virus is a small program that can copy itself and spread to other computers.
Computer viruses may slow your computer, decrease your available memory, change your
Internet settings or flood your computer with pop-up advertisements. In addition, many computer
viruses alter your desktop. For example, a computer virus might add shortcuts to your desktop
and change, or even disable your wallpaper.