The document discusses computer viruses, including what they are, how to recognize them, where they originate from, and how to prevent and remove them. It notes that virus attacks have risen drastically each year, targeting businesses and allowing identity theft. It provides tips on recognizing viruses based on computer performance and suspicious activity. Common virus sources are listed as porn, music downloading, and survey sites. The document recommends using antivirus software from reputable companies and exercising caution when online to avoid infection.

1. The Computer Virus
A Boogeyman in Its Own Right
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2. Virus attacks grow by the year
What is a Computer Virus?
It is exactly what it was always meant to be. A malicious coding that
can harm someone’s technology as well as their life in an electronically
hazardous way.
The number of computer attacks due to cracked and damaged
security measures has risen drastically with each passing year.
Businesses and other forms of places that manage money are prime
targets, and much identity theft as well as internet burglary happens
because of computer viruses. Have you ever had an Amazon account,
for example, and seen something on there you have never purchased?

3. How to Recognize Viruses
• Viruses come in so many varied forms, and it can be very difficult
at the best of times to decipher where on is, and if it has already
attacked you. Subtlety has become a great part of viruses, slipping
in unawares and causing internal problems that most can miss if
new to computers.
• We can recognize nasties by:
– Looking for performance lag(slower functioning, freezing, etc…)
– Running a scan on your computer (AVG, Norton, etc….)
– Noticing transactions that you do not recognize
– Noticing software installed that you did not install
– A yellow triangle pop up flashing on screen
– Pop Up Advertisements coming up (use Holy water)

4. Where do Viruses spawn?
Viruses have a number of places
they can pop up at. Some
varieties of websites are easier to
spot than others, thanks to
stereotypes. Porn, music
download, and surveys are nasty
nests on large scale.
The sites that have viruses will
usually have pop-ups, and
generally, many pornographic
sites tend to be littered with them.
If a program or website tries to
install something on your
computer, be wary.

5. What Programs can Fight Viruses?
There are a wide variety of programs out there to
help prevent and rid you of virsues, however, some
viruses actually DISGUISE themselves as anti-virus
programs.
A few reputable anti-viruses programs are:
– Norton
– Malware Malbytes
– AVG
– Avast!
– Comodo

6. Need to Know Basis
• Never, ever, ever, ever click on a pop up.
• If you receive mail from an unknown person, do not open
it.
• Avoid surveys for free stuff
• Use Mozilla Firefox to know how dangerous a site is
before getting on
• If possible, avoid toolbar downloads
• Porn sites are vast nests of nasties. Is the vagina or
penis worth your computer getting attacked?

7. Need to Know Basis (cont…)
• NEVER give out credit card information
unless you have checked the validity of a
website
• Update your software. Some older versions
may not be as protected as newer ones
• If you buy a used computer, do a destructive
restore on it. You already have nothing on
there to lose, except a possible virus.

8. Where can you discover more?
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<http://kb.iu.edu/data/aehm.html>.
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