Essay On Computer Viruses

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King Zachary Villarante
Patrick Vidal
Introduction
In our generation today, we can say that the technology had reached so far. If we are looking back on the past, the first computer was invented in the year 1939, it was the HP 200A Audio oscillator which becomes a popular device of test equipment’s for engineers (“Timeline of Computer History”).
As the decade passed by, a bunch of inventions are produced and the innovation was successfully exceeded. Some products today are thin-laptops, tablets, touch phones etc. But despite of these innovations, there is a program that can harm those gadgets and it can lead to software destruction. It is what we called “virus”, Viruses are well known computer attackers, and they cause a big damage to your computer. There are several types of viruses and each have the power to compromise your computer in different ways. Usually, users can get a virus by downloading questionable files without knowing that it contain viruses.
As defined in Merriam Webster, “Virus it is a computer program that is usually hidden within another seemingly innocuous program and that produces copies by itself and inserts them into other programs and usually performs a malicious action.” Brain & Fenlon ( n.d.) stated that one of the factor that led to the creation of viruses was the floppy disk. In the 1980’s, programs were small, and you could fit the entire operating system, a few programs and some documents onto a floppy disk or two. Many computers did not have hard disks, so when you turned on your machine it would load the operating system and everything else from the floppy disk.
But who is the first persons who write a virus? According to Leyden (2012), When Rich Skrenta created Elk Cloner as a prank in February ...

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...uses, experts say, because the virus creators move too quickly. That is prompting startups and other companies to get creative about new approaches to computer security.

The purpose of this study is to make a comparison between the advantages and the disadvantages of an anti-virus software. First, the Researchers wants to know how an antivirus software program detects and eliminates potential virus threats. Second, what is the strength of the anti-virus software in terms of the safety of the computer, securing the valuable information or files on your computer, protecting the computer against the virus attacks. Additionally, they want to know if it is really essential to have an anti-virus. Also, they want to figure out what are the disadvantages of these software in terms of capability in dealing with hidden viruses, spywares and other threats in the computer.

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