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David Perry from Trend Micro explains what is a computer virus

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This is an excerpt from Small Business School. What is a virus? A virus is any program that makes copies of itself. That’s what a virus is where forcibly makes copies of itself. Trojans are viruses that don’t replicate. It’s a dirty trick that just sits in one place usually to have a wrapper like the Trojan horse and it will show up and it’ll be a game. It’s a screen saver, it’s whatever and someone will run it and the next thing that you know their computer are open in the internet and a person who wrote that can control them from afar. There are zombies that are used in denial of service attacks. You know there is either odd words spy ware which is growing rapidly as a threat so you really need protection across a range or spectrum spread of malicious content. It is content security.