Viruses are softwares that are develoved to infect the computer files and make the computer applications to malfunction. There are software to remove these viruses from the computer. A recent virus which has started infecting the network is challenging the computer and software engineers. Conficker seemed quite sophisticated for a piece of so-called “malware.” It is not a computer virus instead, it seems designed to get stealthily into people’s machines and take control of them though just for what, is unclear.  Once it infects a computer, it contains instructions to contact some faraway command center for further instructions April 1. More than one engineer thought it was possible the whole thing was an elaborate April Fool’s joke — though if so, its creator, or creators, went to an awful lot of trouble for very little.

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