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an infected diskette is inserted into the disk drive, the virus can be copied into the computer system.

The most common ways viruses enter your system are through files added to your systen through removable media such as diskettes, files, downloaded from the internet, and files attached to e-mails.

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Diskettes.... They go back a bit! :-)

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Timely then, was something I heard on the radio only this evening: businesses have sometimes been attacked from within by a sneaky physical Trojan Horse trick in which the attacker (usually a rival trying to steal commercial secrets) discreetly drops a USB stick close to the victim's front door. The hope is that some staff member will pick it up and out of unthinking curiosity, take into work and plug into his or her office computer to see what's on it. The finder does not see much, but the attackers do, unless the company's IT system is very heavily protected. One protective method allows data traffic to and from only the firm's own authorised and encoded external devices, so the computer cannot read from or write to any randomly-found or employee-owned USB stick .

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