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True or False: It’s always safe to open attachments that come with e-mail messages from people you know. False. False. Even if an attachment is from someone you do know, they could be unwittingly sending you a virus.

Which is generally considered safer from viruses: a computer running Windows or a Mac? Mac. Macs are generally considered safer, but they’re not completely free of nasty bits of software.

What does a "backdoor" in a computer do? Let a Hacker control the computer. A backdoor – often set up by a worm – lets a hacker have access to your computer. Then the hacker might use your computer to attack other computers or something.

According to the WildList, how many viruses and worms were circulating "in the wild" – spreading between computers – in August 2009? Nearly 1,000. 992. They collect reports of viruses and publish them in a big ol’ list once a month.

Which of these is a strategy used by the Conficker worm to keep you from getting rid of it? All of the above. One version or another of the Conficker worm does every one of those. Clever little piece of code, eh? It’s really hard to remove from an infected computer.

When was the first computer virus written? 1971. The first computer virus was the Creeper virus, written in 1971, when there weren’t that many computers. But some of them were linked together on ARPAnet, a U.S. military network, and the Creeper spread between them.

Where do viruses come from? People write them. People write them. In 2003, a British programmer was sentenced to two years in prison for writing the Gokar virus and other viruses and releasing them into the wild. The guy who wrote the Melissa virus got 20 months in 2002.

A Trojan horse is something you download thinking it’s going to be useful, but is secretly evil – like software that claims to be a Microsoft update but actually erases all your pictures. What epic poem goes into detail about the original Trojan horse? The Aeneid. Virgil described it in detail in The Aeneid, although Homer mentions it briefly in The Odyssey. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!

Maybe you should renew your virus protection? 8 out of 8