Viruses

1. What do you know about the topic before you research?
- You can get viruses just from downloading an app on you computer. They may be extremely dangerous. It can go from being a simple thing like your computer getting stuck or shutting down, to someone watching what you are doing the whole time.

2. What you wonder or questions you have about the topic before researching (at least 2).
- I wonder how from getting a virus, people can track you or watch you. Also what happens inside the computer and how it damages it. The last thing is how to get rid of the virus.

3. Links to where you found the most useful information (at least 2, NOT Wikipedia, although you can use it to help you)
- http://www.liutilities.com/how-to/get-rid-of-a-computer-virus/
- http://www.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129972

4. Bullet list of things you learned about the topic (at least 5)
- There are different types of viruses.
- Viruses not only affect your computer, but they can affect you also.
- There is a virus where your personal information is taken and other people can see it.
- Viruses can come from internet pages, downloading applications, and also someone sending it through your email.
- There is a text file in every computer called a cookie. It contains your personal information, the sites you have gone to, and information you have entered in those sites.

5. A short summary of how this topic connects/relates to you or your life.
- This topic relates to my life because I always use the internet and I'm always downloading stuff from the internet. This can damage my computer and can also harm me. I need to know how to remove viruses and other dangerous things because I'm always using my computer and I always need it.

6. Questions you still have (at least 1)
- I still have the question of how people can watch you without you noticing. and what the computer starts doing when it gets viruses.