Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Security Issues, Ethics, and Emerging Technologies in Education
Chapter eight informed me about risks and safeguards for my computer. Viruses were introduced along with tips on how not to get them, signs of acquired virus infections, a list of ways in which they spread, and the actual definition of a virus.

A virus is an illegal computer code that can alter the programs that are in your computer and destroy the data that is stored in ther as well. Viruses are spread when the host program is shared with another computer, which in turn spreads to many many other computers. The only real way for your computer to be totally safe from a virus would be if viruses never existed. Thats not true so there are programs that were created to shield your computer from the danger of a virus.

A few ways to know whether or not your computer has a virus are: unusual messages, sounds or music, graphical images randomly pop up on your computer, there is an unexplained decrease in memory on your computer, files become corrupted, etc. I learned that there are numerous ways to detect, prevent, and be safe with the use of my computer so i will take note of this in the future.