Why is it called a computer virus?

Answer 1

The naming of the computer virus has sort of the same roots as the computer bug. When the first viruses were discovered, people named it based on the main aspects of the object. The viruses focused on dumb cloning/reproducing, exactly like organic viruses, and there you go, the computer virus is born.

Answer 2

Because it makes the computer "sick" and not working right. And Computer Viruses spread, so it's like another word for saying a computer is "sick" and not working right. Viruses can spread computer to computer electronically kind of like how human viruses spread person to person.

That's because a computer virus can spread from computer to computer, and it basically makes the affected computers 'sick'. They don't work as well as they did without the virus, and they can even be destroyed.
Try, next time, to make sure you question makes sense. Secondly, it's spelled virus.

Answer 3

Computer viruses are NOT bugs!

A bug is an unintended error in the code as written by a programmer.

A virus is a piece of code intended by its programmer to do something, usually bad, to a computer and spread to other computers.

The term 'bug' was first used by Grace Hopper on September 9th, 1945 when a real bug, a moth, short-circuited an early computer on relay number 70 Panel F, of the MARK II Aiken Relay Calculator, in the Harvard University. The operators of the computer said they had "debugged" the computer, and ever since then the terms has not changed.

Answer 4

Because just like viruses in humans, they can pass from computer to computer, being "contagious" in a manner.Plus it ruins your computer like it ruins a body