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Article: Don't catch the bug. (protection from computer virus) (column)
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- Association Management
- Article date:
- May 1, 1991
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Don't Catch the Bug
About once a year we get the world-is-coming-to-an-end-computer-virus story. In 1988 it was the story of computer rogue Robert Morris, Jr.'s prank-gone-haywire, which brought down Internet, a widely used national computer network. In 1989 it was the dastardly Datacrime '89 virus. Whenever this happens, I get a lot of telephone calls. I get questions like these: "Am I protected?" "What can I do to make sure I'm safe?"
Computer viruses infected about 200,000 machines last year. They are actually computer programs whose only purpose is to get inside your computer and do vicious things. Some do nothing more than slap a message on your ...