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How does a Virus get on my PC?

Believe it or not, mostly it’s something you did, albeit unknowingly. Most viruses arrive in the following manner:

• Malicious websites that ask you to install a plug-in, ActiveX control, Java applet, add on, or other program. They achieve this by telling you that you can’t proceed, or that you’re already infected and installing this software will fix your PC, or that you can save money or increase the speed of your PC.
• Malicious e-mails or e-mail attachments. E-mail may contain links to aforementioned websites, often disguised as other websites. Or they may contain attachments disguised as jokes or funny pictures, which in fact are programs that install on your computer.
• Files sent to you in other ways, on a CD disc or DVD, a USB key, over Messenger, etc. A virus always has to be embedded in a file, and 99% of the time it requires that you run the file!