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Article: Fending Off a `Computer Virus' Means Taking Only a Few Precautions
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- The Washington Post
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- February 15, 1988
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Is your computer vulnerable to a virus?
I've received several queries recently from readers who have
heard or read news stories about a "computer virus" that reportedly
can attack a computer and destroy stored programs or data. People
want to know whether such stories are true-and if they are, how to
fend off a viral attack.
"Computer virus" may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie
on the Late, Late Show-a future civilization, dependent on robots and
computers, faces disaster because its machines have mysteriously gone
on the fritz.
In fact, computer virus refers to a kind of software program
that can work its way through the memory or hard disk of a computer
and alter or erase ...