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Question by  dbieniek (137)

What are the symptoms of a computer virus?

I have a virus program--why would I have a virus?

 
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Answer by  sc1234 (1319)

Even if you have an anti-virus program, you need to be careful about what you download. Symptoms include slow performance, limited activity, and unwanted advertisements.

 
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Answer by  JosueC (22)

The symptoms are not the same, it depends on what kind of virus you have. The most common are slow processing, a reduction of your Internet broadband, High memory consuming process, and so on. Recently, most virus are made to present no symptoms to the computer in order to deceive the user.

 
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Answer by  Danielle2480 (247)

Usually the first indication that you have a virus is when your Anti-virus program picks it up. These can come from many places like downloads, plugins and emails. Slow computers and quirky things happening are other indicators

 
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