Simply, a computer virus is a harmful multiplying code that harms your computer and makes it slower, harder to use, and more vulnerable to other harmful unsafe software, apps, downloads and more.
How to get it?
- You can get computer viruses just from going to unsafe websites
- downloading harmful files
- downloading harmful images
- downloading harmful videos
- clicking unsafe advertisements
and thats just a couple of examples, there's many many more but you get the idea.
Something that really sucks about computer viruses is that its hard to tell if something online is dangerous or not.
That's why people make specific softwares to protect your computer but even those can be unsafe or people could be trying to trick you.
Sometimes the computer will already have some sort of app or software to protect it from these harmful files, but make sure to pay attention when your on websites and check the urls and make sure it doesn't say anything along the lines of "unsafe" if it says that just simply exit the website and dont do anything further.
If your experiencing slowness, files you don't remember saving on your computer or extra files and apps that dont seem to belong, im sure there are places you can call online or in your local area to help with these issues.
Hope this helped!!
