ZX ideas - there are more than 3000 different viruses

C) Viruses

Viruses are programs found on some infected floppy disks. They are activated at a certain time and disable the entire system. Typically, a virus from an infected floppy disk is transferred to memory or a hard drive.

It is still possible to somehow remove it from the hard drive, but from memory it is very difficult.

Once in memory, the virus is constantly written to the next floppy disk. One of the most famous in the beginning was the “Friday the 13th” virus: on this day it was activated and destroyed the data entered by that time (for example, in V.B. this was how data that had been entered for four years was destroyed).

According to the latest data, there are more than 3,000 different viruses (programs that create garbage on PCs). The SCAN program helps protect against infection: it recognizes viruses before you start using the floppy disk on your PC. The program checks whether the floppy disk is infected and reports it. If you do not have a VACCINE to remove the virus, it is better to throw away such a floppy disk.

Virus removal programs are very expensive and do not guarantee that they will be able to eliminate every virus: your computer may be infected with some new virus. But let's leave viruses and PCs aside - this is their problem, and let PC magazines deal with the issue.

So far, no virus is known for Spectrum, so you don’t have to worry about your RAINBOW.

C.S.