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A ordinary virus(eg:Yellow Fever) would look like it is dead. But when it enters a host's body it will start to multiply and to infect the body.

Similarly Computer Viruses, are harmless piece of algorithms saved on flash drives, hard drives and other media devices. The start their duty only when the are triggered by an execution of a command/application or by the starting up of the OS.

Due to the similarities in it's doings computer viruses are termed in such a way.

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