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Mention three way in which a virus harm your computer

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Well, the 3 most common ways i found a virus can affect your system is listed below.:

  1. A virus often cause registry errors, hence, some software will not open, or windows will not even start.
  2. Some viruses can actually cause faulty sectors on your hard drive to occur, hence you can loose data.
  3. Most commonly viruses will cause you computer to slow down significantly.
The last mentioned is the most common, and many people only start realising they have a virus once the computer is not responding, or very slow.

Hope this can answer your question. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you need any further information.

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1: Can make it so that infected files just don't work anymore, so after a while your computer won't even boot.
2: Popups and ads, can also download more viruses
3: Can track your info like credit card numbers and passwords.

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