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What is a virus program?

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A virus is a malicious, self-replicating program in which the sole creation of the program is infect and damage other people's computers. Viruses have many effects on a computer, but feature the most common as following:

* Computer is running slow or not responding to some commands.

* Various files or programs are gone or have been renamed.

* Various unknown files have mysteriously appeared on the computer without the user knowing how they got there.

* Computer crashes frequently.

* Your computer dies from a severe virus infection and results in a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).

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