Computer Viruses as a Threat to Home Users

The Computer virus threat is growing and home users are threatened by them, especially with the increasing dependence on computers to accomplish the vast verity of tasks in our modern lives. The popularity of internet aggravates the threat and gives the virus writers the ideal environment to distribute their viruses, since computer viruses can spread through the universe in a few hours causing distractions to hundreds of thousands of computers around the globe. An abbreviated idea about computer viruses nature, history and development, the damage caused by some well known viruses and the different types of computer viruses is explained, also virus writers types, motivations, their point of view towards ethical and legal issues, and the effect of legal penalties on their practice is explained .The threat of computer viruses towards home users is proved, some solutions to eliminate the threat of computer viruses is highlighted. Home users can protect their systems based on their understanding of the foregoing.