After all, these viruses can destroy computers and months or even years of work. As a network administrator, you know the time and money it takes to protect your company's computers and data. And if the actual viruses themselves aren't enough to worry about, people have begun preying on our paranoia by starting virus hoaxes. For example, the Good Times virus hoax had many people fearing that their data would be destroyed. If you received this message, the Good Times virus would supposedly destroy your computer's hard drive and send the processor into an infinite binary loop, which would damage the processor itself.
File viruses are more common than boot sector viruses.
As the name suggests, file viruses are usually macros that infect files created by applications such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. If you open a Word file that is infected by this virus, your computer becomes infected. Although infected with the Concept virus, your computer will continue to function normally, and no data will be lost. When you open a Word file, however, you will experience problems. For example, some macros may not function, and you may not be able to save files.