Computer Virus Essay

For those of us who have owned computers for a few years now, have, without a doubt had an experience with a computer virus of some sort. Have you ever wondered how, or even why these viruses got started in the first place? We know that computer viruses are created by people. Someone has to write the code and test it. That someone also has to figure out the attack phase. This attack phase may come in the form of a silly message popping up on the screen, all the way to the destruction of the hard disk. But, for goodness sake, why? There are at least three good reasons why people do this. Some people do it for the thrill. It is the same kind of psychology that causes people to vandalize gravestones, start a fire, or spray graffiti. For some …show more content…
Those individuals either do not care or have no idea about just how much their action affect and hurt the lives of millions of people. We now have an idea as to why the viruses were created; let us talk about how they were created. In the early 1980s, personal computers in the home were rare. But, by the late 190s, computers were in homes, businesses, and on college campuses around the United States. With the population of computers now on the rise, computer bulletins boards were also becoming very popular. With the use of a modem, you could dial up a bulletin board and download items like games, word processors, and …show more content…
It came into your computer disguised as a game. Once it was downloaded into your computer, it could wipe out your whole system. Remember the floppy disk? Since many computers at that time had no hard disks, everything had to be copied back onto a floppy disk. If there was a virus attached to a program it would be saved, along with the program it was attached to, onto this floppy disk. Each time the information was loaded back into the computer, the virus would find another vulnerable program to attach onto. The virus was also spread from computer to computer with the exchange of information from the floppy disks. So, as the saying goes, 'now we know the rest of the story. '
Accessing your PC or computer without a monitor sounds like an impossible mission to accomplish. Fundamentally, that might probably be true. On the other hand, with so many advanced applications and programs nowadays, the impossible is now achievable. With the help of a remote or virtual network computing application, you may access a computer with no aid of a monitor. Such an application allows one to make use of a computer that has a monitor to use and access another computer linked to the same network or via the