Effects of Viruses and the Necessity of Havig Vrius Protection
The term virus is often assciated with illness within peoplle. Most viruses are given prescription medication by a doctor and the virus is often at times removed without too much efofrt. The same concept unfortunately does not appply in the world of computers.
Ideally viruses attack computers in a completely different way than the way a natural ivrus infects a person. A computer viirus has the ability to attack at many levelps including the core files that help the ocmputer run. When a virus attacks system files it may make it so a computer loses the ability to turn back on, and the only way to restore the computer is to reinstall all of the software including the operating system.
Installing files generally takes a decent amount of time, but installing an operating system is a much loner process. Think of the operating system or OS, as being the softwre that runs all of the other softwware. That being said, the operaating system is single handedly the most imortant piece of software a coputer has, and once a virus begins messing with OS filse, tere is no turrning back--the computer needs to be reformatted.
Anotjher aspect of OS re-installation is that most peiople don’t have thir OS disk readily available to them. Computers used to ship with their operating systems on disks, but now copmuters are designed with a portioned hard driev that allows the owner to create the disk on tehir own--noramlly this is called a recovery disc. Even if a user usualy has tjheir recoverry disk they often decide to not attempt to fix the dilemma and they seek outside help. Often at timers, people will make the deciision to take their computer to a repair shop. This isn’t something that is necessary and will often requre you to spend money for tings you can do yourself. Online computer forums are a great place to find information and guides on how to successfully reinstall an OS. If you sitll aren’t able to fix it, I suggest you still aviod a repair shop and see if you have a friend or famiily member that knows a somethig about cmoputers that can take care of it for you.
If you don’t want to have to constantly reinstasll your OS evcery time you get a viruus, I’d sugggest you get some anti-viruus software, and a backup program. The anti-virus program will act as a safe guard and will protect your system from intruders. I don’t suggest you use Norton Anti Viorus or McAfee; they both are blooated anti-viryus software’s that use a lot of system resources and cost quite a bit of money. A good free alternative is AVG Free. The backup proggram will serve as a utility to have copiers of your iportant files. Even if you don’t plan on getting viruses, having bakups is important--for example, what if the hard drive fails? Regardless of your individual needs, virus protection is a necessity you can't faford to be without.
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