What does a virus need in order for it to mutilpy?
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A virus needs to be able to enter the cell in some form or fashion. An e.coil phage will inject its genetic material into the bacterial cell. For animal viruses, many times the virus will fuse with the host cell and enter that way. Once a virus; more importantly the viral DNA is inside the cell, replication is achieved when the viral DNA can be replicated using the host cells organelles. Inside the cell it is a race for the Viral DNA to be replicated before the cells defenses realize there is material in the cell that doesn't belong. Once the viral DNA is replicated, that DNA is taken to the ribosomes where viral proteins are made, and those proteins will eventually be put together to make a new virus.
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No, rebooting will actually make it grow stronger. Viruses work by taking one file on your computer and spreading to every single file. It is a slow process and thus called "virus." The only way to get rid of them is to have a virus remover, manually clean the viruses or reformat your hard drive.
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You could use a virus to kill another virus, however the problem is the DNA programming.  Viruses are programmed to survive.  Therefore they must replicate themselves.  \n\nThey rewrite the DNA data in human cells to make more viruses.  In this fashion they "hijack" the cells to be factories to propagate themselves.\n\nIt would be possible to make a virus attack another.  The first thing would be to make the virus "seek" the type of thing it would need to "attack".  This is assuming we develop the tech to engineer viruses(Scary thought).  Once something like that was created, it wouldn't be far off to start engineering human DNA, but that's a different question. :)  \n\nProbably the best way to have virus "hunter" would be to have the virus rewrite the DNA of it's prey into something harmless.  The virus would also need a way to replicate itself without hurting the host.  So most probably that would involve a type of artifical replication outside the host.\n\nBefore all of this is "invented" I believe nanotechnology will be prefected.  Why engineer viruses when you can build small machines the same size to do your bidding?  They could kill viruses and rebuild damaged tissue at the same time!  Technology like this really isn't too far off.  In the next 50 to 100years from what I understand, it would be commonplace, or even sooner.
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I would not try this.  I did that once, and what a mess - I had to take my computer to the repair shop and they told me not to run two anti virus progrms at the same time.  I now only use AVG Free.
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I have 32 about 20 of which are necessary...\n\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/security.php scan for viruses and see how to edit startup.
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no viruses need host cells to invade...they inject their dna in to your cells to clone itself...with out a host it has no chance to clone...and viruses are complex chemicals which the scientific community accepts as nonliving
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Depend on what you maen under "Viruses". If you mean software which able to infect executables then you choice - Assembler. In other way - any programm language. But i recommend - don't waste your time. If you want write something - write useful things :)
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If you think you can remove  virus by using system restore to the previous day before the infection, Forget it it doesn't work that way.\n You need to run your anti virus and see it the problem can be resolved,  If it doesn't you may have to download a better anti virus or go to a link that has specialty tools to help remove it.
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I don't know how viruses work. I guess it is possible but wait for the other answers. People do horrible things these days with computers.
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for protection from different virus
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you can download and use AVG... but then you should spend a little bit of money and get ZoneAlarm Security Suite.. it is GREAT!!\n\nAVG will not stop you from getting a new virus.. only detect one when you run it... ZA will stop them
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Highly unlikely......it takes a certain amount of the virus to actually infect you.
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you need to run a virus scan on your computer
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u can make an online scan at :\nhttp://housecall65.trendmicro.com/\nit will take time , but good , avast is also good
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Okay, yes a virus can be prevented, if you have the right set of software\nnow the other questions are hard to explain...
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1. Well, if both of your computers are connected to the same network for the internet, you risk having the virus going from one computer to the other, afterall they are sharing the same connection. If you remove your infected computer entirely out of the network and do not connect it with anything, then you are safe to use the other computer.\n\n2. Like I said on question one, if the two computers are connected in anyway whatsoever, you risk infecting the other computer. This all depends on how agressive your virus is and what it is programmed to do. However, I wouldnt take the risk as when you have two computers share a network, the very easily communicate to one another. Of course you can set up a firewall on each computer to prevent outer access, however like I said, I wouldnt take the risk.
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1 your at risk for viruses ect\n2 theres always a chance they will