List of Strategies for Avoiding Virus Infections. If left unchecked, a computer virus can disrupt performance, compromise personal information or even destroy your hard drive. Practicing some ...

Recent viruses have gotten their names from soda drinks ("Code Red") and mythical beasts ("Bugbear"); some early antivirus researchers identified programs by working through a list of tree names.

When the virus gets onto your computer, it begins to encrypt files and make them unable to open. It’s easy to get rid of the virus itself, but it’s very difficult to then open the encrypted files.

“The first computer virus was the creeper worm, in 1971. It was rather innocuous, but annoying, traveling across ARPANET and leaving little messages asking for people to catch it,” Downs says.

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Your computer will then pretend to reboot and in the fake Windows boot screen you will see the following message under the Windows logo: Your Anti-virus-1 copy is unregistered.

There is not one standardized way to name a viruses. These aren't hurricanes, there's no master list to turn to, and no authority that watches over them to regulate how their dealt with.

Flame is clearly the next evolution in computer viruses. Were I an Iranian scientist Flame would definitely be in my top 5 Virus, Trojan and Worm selections; since I am not, here is my top 5.

At issue is a semi-official virus naming convention that dates back to the early 1990s and was developed by the Computer Antivirus Research Organization (CARO), a group of computer security experts.

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