Checking Your Computer for Viruses

Just like you can get a virus, so can your computer. Computer viruses range from simple, mischievous programs that might display stupid messages to really dangerous ones that can wipe out all the data on a drive. How does your PC get infected? Well, you can get a virus from any number of sources, including the Internet, email attachments, and opening a file that happens to be infected from a floppy disk or other removable type of media (like a CD drive).