Name five computer viruses

Answer 1

Answer

There are three main types of viruses, complex, rod and geometric. There are many more but all the others are either subtypes or strains of those three or cover a very small number of viruses. However if you want to know how many different viruses there are the answer would be in the billions.

Viruses can be categorized on the following bases:

• On the basis of the type of nuclear material they carry:
• • a) DNA virus
  • b) retrovirus or RNA virus
    

• On the basis of morphology (shape):
  
• • a) helical
  • b) Complex
  • c) Enveloped
  • d) Icosahedron

Answer 2

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Influenza, rhino, all the hepatitis viruses (HVA, HVB, HVC, HVD, etc.), all the Ebola viral strains. If you ran a search for "viruses", you would see websites for extensive lists, far too many to post here.

Answer 3

There are countless Computer Viruses infecting machines all over the world. Some of the notable viruses are Chernobyl, Creeper, Elk Cloner, (c)Brain, and VLAD.

Answer 4

1. W32/Netsky-P
2. W32/Mytob-GH
3. W32/Mytob-EX

Answer 5

A computer virus is a glitch or malfunction in your computer, two examples are spam and po**.