Computer & Viruses

Date: April 1st 2009

Time: 3:00PM

Place: new York, NY

Computers and the viruses that affect them, amazing isn’t it. I remember once I was working in a Hospital some time ago and the computer fell in front of a doctor who said “well if that was a patient I would be sued” and we replied “ well computers also get viruses you know” and he remarked “do they bleed?” we all had a good laugh. They don’t bleed but for sure they can get sick from the viruses and that is why they die or fail to operate as they were programmed to. Every so often there is a new virus ready to attack and we have to be able to counter that by using antivirus software. If you are not protected, within hours on the web your system will be so affected with viruses that it will never be the same again. You will need to come up with a few hundred dollars to get it repaired which is not even the worst part. You run the risk of losing data which in most cases is priceless. I always wonder if there is a connection between the virus creator and the antivirus creator, don’t it look a bit questioning or is it just me. It is a really annoying experience to have your system infect by some unknown virus and then all these popup appears and most of it is in a sexual nature. Why? Why can it not be popup with good humor or Macy’s sales or something of that nature? Troubling is it not? To top it off you have to keep your antivirus update every other day or even though you purchased the software and configured it, your system could still be infected. This thing is confusing and adds stress to our already stressful lives. Hopefully in the future something more powerful will be created, but why would they?