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computer virus
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Origin of computer virus1
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Example Sentences
Think about the advent of the circuit breaker to avoid electrocution, and anti-virus software to stave off computer viruses.
He railed about the dire threat of computer viruses, sometimes hyping the danger well beyond reality.
The term was coined in 1992 when Neal Stephenson published his hit sci-fi novel Snow Crash, in which the protagonist moves between a virtual world and the real world fighting a computer virus.
A computer virus performs self‐reproduction with variations.
It's a terrific bit of sci-fi, imaging what might happen when our totally networked world meets a really smart computer virus.
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