Part one of term paper
A growing problem in using computers is computer viruses. Viruses are pesky little programs that some hacker with too much time on his hands wrote. Viruses have been known to create annoyances from displaying messages on the screen, such as "Your PC is now stoned," to completely obliterating everything that is contained on the computer's har ...

Part two of term paper
... can also be infected when a disk that is infected with a virus is used to boot the computer. When this computer is infected, every one who writes a floppy disk on this computer gets their floppy disk contaminated, and risks getting this virus on their computer, which may not have good virus protection. On IBM-Compatible PCs, viruses will only infect executable programs, such as the .EXE and .COM files. On a Macintosh, any file can be contaminated. A disk can also be infected even without any files o ...