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Viruses: Viruses can steal your personal information, use your computer as a zombie, and do other nasty things to you.
Phishing: Phishing is a way to steal your personal information by leading you on.
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoa virus is a virus, so it can do anything from slowing down your computer to crashing or wiping your entire hard drive.
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Can phishing scams give your computer viruses?
It can give your computer spam
How does a transient virus affect your computer?
how do viruses effect your computer
What term best describe viruses?
Biological viruses are pathogens that can affect either humans or animals. Computer Viruses are manmade computer coding as a program intended to disrupt the normal use of a computer and networking.
What are the typical threats a computer user can encounter when using the computer?
Common threats to computers nowadays include: * Malware (Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses) * Hackers * Spam * Phishing
What are the common factors that affect or destroy the personal computer?
viruses
Can computer viruses affect macros?
Yes but not if you have antivirus software
What computer viruses infect Linux?
There are no wild computer viruses that affect Linux. Oh wait, there was RST.b. If you need to, you can run certain windows viruses under Linux with wine.
How does a computer virus affect your desktop computer?
There are hunderds of ways it will make your desktop differ. For example: - Computer Viruses could disable all programs you have. - Computer Viruses could turn off your Anti-Virus. - Computer Viruses could block Internet from you.
How do computer viruses affect your computer?
some big viruses make you computer slow, but the whole point of a virus is to go as unnoticed as possible. Hope this helped with your question!! -mike
How did computer viruses get their name?
A computer virus is a programme, or piece of code, that is written to interfere with, and harm, your machine. A virus can replicate itself, spread to other computers, and attack other programmes on your computer. (By attack, we mean change or delete files.) Computer viruses affect computer the same way human viruses affect us there the name has come from the anology.
What are consequences of phishing?
The risks of phishing include getting a virus on your computer or phone. You can also be fined very heavily if caught phishing.
Do computer viruses affect iPad?
Computer viruses are not built the same way iPod, iPhone, or iPad apps are built. They will not run, and probably will not for a very, very long time.
