Computer viruses range from pesky to outright dangerous. Some just display a message, while others erase your entire hard disk. Clicking on what looks like a harmless e-mail message can lead to hours of recovery efforts, if not irreparable damage. In this HowStuffWorks video you will learn about the different types of computer "infection" and how to avoid them. Credits: , HowStuffWorks
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@you54222 that isn’t a virus. thats a damage.
LOL
@ashthepokemonmaster I received one, they are fragile, I spill soda on the keyboard (my bad), and now it doesn’t turn on.
@dydx09
I’ll explain it simple, a floppy disk is an enlarged version of a USB, a very outdated device, able to hold approximately a small amount of megabytes.
I run Linux, whats a Virus? Ah?
What is this….floppy disk you speak of?
@goodtimesontoob like a whore
i want the sony vaio laptop!
idiot, this video is pure bullshit !
These videos don’t load 4ever!
@fireofdragon2 Actually, it’s a simple explanation. The animation would look awkward if shown how it would really work.
@wallysboyfriend
Basically, did you just copy & paste?
You won’t receive the virus unless you execute the program, usually it’s best to save the file and then scan it with the anti virus of your preference, or an online virus scanner.
Computer viruses is the pass. We have better things to do.
@goodtimesontoob thats what real viruses look like well close enough anyway
is it Bacteriophage or computer Virus? HUH
People are idiots.. Jesus.
YEP, they were never potty trained…. neway the cartoon at the beginning of the clip looked like it was blowing its brains out
Viruses are programs or executable code that can overwrite or append data to files or programs to either ruin the content of files or change how other programs execute. To infect means to run a virus and have it write copies of itself to other files. When a virus replicates it usually changes and/or adds executable code to other program files which will, when run, create more copies of the virus or infect other files.
I thought howstuffworks usually had good information… but this is just weak. it didnt explain anything about how viruses work.
why do you look so happy when a virus is something, um…. serious?
so…there like aids
they don’t do that enymore lol…
now they are hiden programs (tasks) that you can’t see runing in the back ground
now a days viruses are no longer like that now a day ther come in a lot of difrent ways ther the FU visus that just meses wih your pc the spybot that looks what your tiping in (PW,creditcard,etc…) and they comonly get on your pc via trojan
can come from baner adds email(as seen in vid) or just by visiting a sigt that runs a scrit to put it on your pc the vid over symplifys…
in 1995 this is how they worked when people were ignorant tech-no ways
this guy has a rapist smile
no one uses floppy anymore
i hate those f***ing viruses
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