Most of us swap disks with friends and browse the Net looking for downloads. Rarely do we ever consider that we are also exchanging files with anyone and everyone who has ever handled them in the past. If that sounds like a warning about social diseases, it might as well be. Computer viruses are every bit as insidious and destructive, and come in a vast variety of strains. A computer virus tears up your hard …showed first 75 words of 718 total…

…showed last 75 words of 718 total…the computing world. They have been around since programming began and will continue to thrive as long as computers are used. Technology will force us to adapt and be aware that any information we place on a computer may not be safe. References Deadly New Computer Viruses Want To Kill Your PC usability. By James Daley http://www.headlines.yahoo.com/news/stories originally published in Computer Shopper December 1996 Microsoft Encarta 96; Reference Material Microsoft corporation