It's a good question, really. Where did the ol' computer virus go, and what's all this new crap people are talking about? Honestly, the term 'computer virus' has been so overloaded and misunderstood in the last decade that it doesn't really mean much anymore. In the same way, the method of doing nefarious things with people's computer has also changed pretty drastically in the last decade. Where we used to have a generic 'computer virus' we now have many different naughty programs exploiting people, depending on the purpose of naughty program. Not only that, with the improvements in antivirus software and operating system security, (please queue any dramatic music you happen to have nearby) we're the ones infecting our own computers.
That is correct! Given the current nature of the world, most of the computer problems we have are self inflicted. Not in the 'well you shouldn't have gone to that site' sort of way. In the 'you specifically downloaded and installed a program that is bad
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