Do you know where the term "computer bug" originated?
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A moth found in the Mark II computer in 1945 that kept it from working.\n\nEdit: Also where the term 'debugging' came from.
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A dangerous computer program with the characteristic feature of being able to generate copies of itself, and thereby spreading. Additionally most computer viruses have a destructive payload that is activated under certain conditions.\n\nA computer virus is a self-replicating program containing code that explicitly copies itself and can "infect" other programs by modifying them or their environment such that a call to an infected program implies a call to a (possibly evolved) copy of the virus
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It's easiest just to blame everything that goes wrong on computers, because otherwise we would have to blame like everything on George Bush, and that wouldn't be entirely honest. Almost, but not entirely.\nSo go on, just blame the stupid machines, they won't mind for now and their hyperintelligent (not George Bush then...) offspring will know where to find you....
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In computer security technology, a virus is a self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents. A computer virus behaves in a way similar to a biological virus, which spreads by inserting itself into living cells. Extending the analogy, the insertion of a virus into the program is termed as an infection, and the infected file (or executable code that is not part of a file) is called a host. Viruses are one of the several types of malicious software or malware. In a common parlance, the term virus is often extended to refer to worms, trojan horses and other sorts of malware, however, this can confuse computer users, since viruses in the narrow sense of the word are less common than they used to be, compared to other forms of malware. This confusion can have serious consequences, because it may lead to a focus on preventing one genre of malware over another, potentially leaving computers vulnerable to future damage. However, a basic rule is that computer viruses cannot directly damage hardware, but only software.\n\nWhile viruses can be intentionally destructive (for example, by destroying data), many other viruses are fairly benign or merely annoying. Some viruses have a delayed payload, which is sometimes called a bomb. For example, a virus might display a message on a specific day or wait until it has infected a certain number of hosts. A time bomb occurs during a particular date or time, and a logic bomb occurs when the user of a computer takes an action that triggers the bomb. However, the predominant negative effect of viruses is their uncontrolled self-reproduction, which wastes or overwhelms computer resources.\n\nToday (as of 2006), viruses are somewhat less common than network-borne worms, due to the popularity of the Internet. Anti-virus software, originally designed to protect computers from viruses, has in turn expanded to cover worms and other threats such as spyware.\n\nDefinition:\n===========\nA virus is a type of program that can replicate itself by making (possibly modified) copies of itself. The main criterion for classifying a piece of executable code as a virus is that it spreads itself by means of 'hosts'. A virus can only spread from one computer to another when its host is taken to the uninfected computer, for instance by a user sending it over a network or carrying it on a removable medium. Additionally, viruses can spread to other computers by infecting files on a network file system or a file system that is accessed by another computer. Viruses are sometimes confused with worms. A worm, however, can spread itself to other computers without needing to be transferred as part of a host. Many personal computers are now connected to the Internet and to local-area networks, facilitating their spread. Today's viruses may also take advantage of network services such as the World Wide Web, e-mail, and file sharing systems to spread, blurring the line between viruses and worms.\n\nViruses can infect different types of hosts. The most common targets are executable files that contain application software or parts of the operating system. Viruses have also infected the executable boot sectors of floppy disks, script files of application programs, and documents that can contain macro scripts. Additionally, viruses can infect files in other ways than simply inserting a copy of their code into the code of the host program. For example, a virus can overwrite its host with the virus code, or it can use a trick to ensure that the virus program is executed when the user wants to execute the (unmodified) host program. Viruses have existed for many different operating systems, including MS-DOS, AmigaOS, Mac OS and even Linux; however, the vast majority of viruses affect Microsoft Windows.\n\nA legitimate application program that can copy itself as a side-effect of its normal function (e.g. backup software) is not considered a virus. Some programs that w
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Go here to remove it,.\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/bugbusting.mspx\n\nNow go here and read. Then you can decide on the best software for your need. Knowing about what your dealing with is the best way to defend against it.\n\nhttp://www.internetinspiration.co.uk/computer_privacy_and_security.htm
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No, it is caused by the Vundo Trojan:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SysProtect\nRemoval tool:\nhttp://www.atribune.org/content/view/24/2/\nGood luck!
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There is a bug regarding this....
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Put the bugs in an envelope, and mail them to Microsoft.\n\nIf you mean computer program bugs, I have no idea.\n\nBy the way, do you know why errors in computer programs are referred to as bugs?  I do.
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I am quoting directly from a site I found from a Google search:\n\n"The term 'user-centered design' originated in Donald Norman’s research laboratory at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in the 1980s and became widely used after the publication of a co-authored book entitled: User-Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction (Norman & Draper, 1986)."
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heh.\n\nWhile small test programs existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase "Hello world!" as a test message was influenced by an example program in the book The C Programming Language. The example program from that book prints "hello, world" (without capital letters or exclamation sign), and was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial, which contains the first known version:\n\nmain() {\n       printf("hello, world");\n}\n\nThe first known instance of the usage of the words "hello" and "world" together in computer literature occurred earlier, in Kernighan's 1972 Tutorial Introduction to the Language B, with the following code:\n\n main( ) {\n   extrn a, b, c;\n   putchar(a); putchar(b); putchar(c); putchar('!*n');\n }\n a 'hell';\n b 'o, w';\n c 'orld';\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world
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It's from a Japanese game "Zero Wing."  It was a bad translation that became an internet phenomenon in 2001-2, heralding geek culture.
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Pull yourself up by your bootstraps\nMeaning\n\nImprove your situation by your own efforts.\n\nOrigin\n\nOf unknown but early, possibly as early as the 17th century, origin. Some early computers used a process called bootstrapping which alludes to this phrase. This involved loading a small amount of code which was then used to progressively load more complex code until the machine was ready for use. This has lead to the term 'booting', referring to starting up a computer.
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Back in the day it was always rumored that McAfee did this and it's persisted as an unban legend since then. 90% of all bugs you see today are not true viruses but rather worms based on known exploits and in my opinion if the Antivirus companies were actually writting viruses then the virus code would be much better.
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A bug is usually something that happens like in different areas of the software, say you do a calculator and the decimal doesn't work at all or something. A bug is also a coding error...\nalso an error is usually something that happens in a certain amount of steps\nor something is wrong on the user side USUALLY\nSorry if that's confusing...
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It comes from the original adventure game, Colassal (sp?) Cave, played on mainframes which later was stolen or plagerized by Scott Adams and published as "Adventure." This part is a maze and as you move through the maze, the phrase changes, twisty maze of little passages, maze of twisty little passages, and so forth. There was a pattern to how the phrase wording changed, which is how you got out. This game was played in text, no gtraphics, with word descriptions and a command prompt where you typed in simple one or two word commands. The idea was to explore and find treasure and get back out again. This is also where two famous magic words come from, PLUGH and XYZZY. These 2 words when spoken in the right place acted like a teleporter to the other place the word could be used.  I think I still have a copy of the original program written in BASIC around here somewhere.\n\nEdit: Found it, the link where you will find out the whole story . They even have copies of the game for various platforms so you can play the game yourself.
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try this\n\nhttp://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/bugbid.html
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Hello,\n\nPlease see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing for a great article with many links to learning about the history of computing on my favorite site Wikipedia.org. \n\nIf you feel that I've answered your question please close your question so I can receive points for my answer. \n\nThanks,\n\nV