What is virus made of?

Answer 1

virus is made of DNA surrounded by the proteinn coat

Answer 2

By learning a programming language. C and C++ are usually the ones used in viruses, but this is only true because these languages are very modular and functional, which means they have a lot of functions in them. This makes it really easy to "tell" the virus EXACTLY what you want to do. It is very easy write a virus in this language.

Viruses are made as to change your hard drive data, use lots of CPU processing space (to slow your computer like mad), and to change data around to corrupt your computer. How do you do this; I don't know (I don't know C or C++)

In Batch, it is fairly easy to write a virus, as it is pretty easy to use cmd in Windows. You just have to know where windows is stored in. Then you can just find the path to it, then you can tell your Batch virus to delete certain files. I'm not going to tell you how, because that's illegal to do so here.

That's pretty much all there is to making Computer Viruses. Basically, all programming languages can be used to write viruses.

Answer 3

A virus (from the Latin virus meaning toxinor poison) is a microscopic infectious agent that can reproduce only inside a host cell. Viruses infect all types of organisms: from animals and plants, to bacteria and archaea.[1] Since the initial discovery of tobacco mosaic virus by Martinus Beijerinck in 1898,[2] more than 5,000 types of virus have been described in detail,[3] although most types of virus remain undiscovered.[4] Viruses are ubiquitous, as they are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth,[5] and are the most abundant type of biological entity on the planet.[6] The study of viruses is known as virology, and is a branch of microbiology.

Viruses consist of two or three parts: all viruses have genes made from either DNA or RNA, long molecules that carry genetic information; all have a protein coat that protects these genes; and some have an envelope of fat that surrounds them when they are outside a cell. Viruses vary in shape from simple helical and icosahedral shapes, to more complex structures. They are about 1/100th the size of bacteria.[7] The origins of viruses in the evolutionary history of life are unclear: some may have evolved from plasmids-pieces of DNA that can move between cells-while others may have evolved from bacteria. In evolution, viruses are an important means of horizontal gene transfer, which increases genetic diversity.[8]

Viruses spread in many ways; plant viruses are often transmitted from plant to plant by insects that feed on sap, such as aphids, while animal viruses can be carried by blood-sucking insects. These disease-bearing organisms are known as vectors. Influenza viruses are spread by coughing and sneezing, and others such as norovirus, are transmitted by the faecal-oral route, when they contaminate hands, food, or water. Rotaviruses are often spread by direct contact with infected children. HIV is one of several viruses that are transmitted through sexual contact.

Not all viruses cause disease, as many viruses reproduce without causing any obvious harm to the infected organism. Viruses such as hepatitis B can cause life-long or chronic infections, and the viruses continue to replicate in the body despite the hosts' defence mechanisms. In some cases, these chronic infections might be beneficial as they might increase the immune system's response against infection by other pathogens.However, in most cases viral infections in animals cause an immune response that eliminates the infecting virus. These immune responses can also be produced by vaccines that give immunity to a viral infection. Microorganisms such as bacteria also have defenses against viral infection, such as restriction modification systems. Antibiotics have no effect on viruses, but antiviral drugs have been developed to treat both life-threatening and more minor infections. Unlike antibiotics however, antiviral drugs do not destroy their target pathogen but inhibit their development. Any drug that destroys viruses is called a viricide.

viruses are made up of ........

Answer 4

Viruses are mainly DNA. They cannot reproduce themselves without invading a living cell and using its "machinery" to create copies. This is why they cause diseases.