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A program that infects other programs by modifying them is called __________.

a)
Virus
b)
Antivirus
c)
Web page
d)
Notepad

Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

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A program that infects other programs by modifying them is called ___...

Virus:

A virus is a program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself.
A computer Virus is nothing but a computer program that does unwanted things with your computer resources, e.g., you are working on a PC, and you are repeatedly receiving the annoying message.
Computer viruses are called viruses because they share some of the traits of biological viruses.
A computer virus passes from computer to computer like a biological virus passes from person to person.
Common types of virus: File virus, Macro virus, Trojan Horse, Worm

Antivirus:

Antivirus software is computer software used to prevent, detect and remove a malicious computer virus.
An antivirus program scans a computer system for virus files and then allows that system user's to deal with those files.
Various Antivirus tools are Norton, Kaspersky, McFee, vast, Avira, etc

Web page:

Each page of a website is called a web page
A web page is a document commonly written in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that is accessible through the Internet or other networks using an Internet browser.
A web page is accessed by entering a URL address and may contain text, graphics, and hyperlinks to other web pages and files.

Notepad:

Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows and a basic text-editing program which enables computer users to create documents.

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