It's the cyber version of junk mail. To find out how to protect yourself against Spam, click here . URL - Universal Resource Locator. Another word for a web site address. Virus - A malicious program written by a person that wastes his programming talents on wreaking havoc on PCs.
Viruses are quite common and have been around for quite a while.
They attached themselves to programs, Word documents, or e-mail and spread themselves when activated. Often they cause harm to the infected PC, such as deleting files. Some of them are harmless or funny. Y2K - Year 2000. To read more about this problem and what you can do to protect yourself, click here .