The T drives are erased daily for everyone. It is recommended that you save your work every 5-10 minutes when working in the labs. It is also suggested that you make regular backups of your disk. Anti-Virus Software Viruses are special programs that are written to make copies of themselves. Much like a human virus, a computer virus spreads from one computer to another, infecting files as it goes.
Some viruses are harmless and just spread from one disk to another.
It is also possible to have a virus which causes damage to the disk by changing data or deleting it altogether. To determine if a virus is present on a disk, the user can run some of the programs listed below. If a virus is found, a special program can be used to attempt to remove the virus from the disk. Viruses are most commonly spread by the sharing of software. That person then gives the infected program to a friend, who copies it to one of their disks, and so on.