During the height of the Nimda attacks, the state system was taking as many as 750,000 hits an hour, he said. A more visible target, computer giant Microsoft, for example, might have been taking 10 times that many in the same period, Doll said. And the problem isn't going to lessen, he said. You just stay vigilant. A virus is a sort of global name for rogue programs that invade or infect computers.
Viruses can create, erase or damage files.
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