The love bug, back orifice, Trojan horses, and the Davinci virus. All are greatly hyped viruses, strengthened to super-viruses by the media who reports them. Hollywood has played a role, too, scaring computer users into thinking that at any moment their computer may be taken over. There are foolproof ways to keep these unwanted intruders off of your hard drive and the steps to be taken are easy enough for anyone to follow. As with many things the only sure protection is abstinence.
Computer viruses travel by way of disks, Internet downloads, and most commonly e-mail attachments.
By simply not using any disks from friends, downloading any files, or opening any attachments, your computer can be kept virus free. However, this is not an acceptable option to most people, the files need to be shared, the software needs to be downloaded. So other options are available, the easiest way to virus awareness is to study how the circulate. Disk viruses used to be the only thing around. Before the Internet and electronic mail, these were the main ones.