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What are viruses?

Updated: 10/26/2022
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Viruses are very small organisms - most cannot even be seen with a regular microscope. They cannot reproduce on their own. They must enter a living cell, which becomes the host cell, and "hijack" the cell's machinery to make more viruses.
The virus are nothing but one kind of interrupt. The virus can interrupt in your system and affect it by some softwares

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