1. A virus is short for Vital Information Resource Under Seize and the first virus was created in Lahore. 2. There are different types of viruses like boot viruses, program file viruses, and macro viruses that infect systems in various ways such as replacing boot records or infecting documents. 3. Viruses can cause symptoms like decreasing computer speed, strange screen patterns, system hanging, file deletion or damage, and hard disk reformatting.