What is the cause of these computer viruses?

Question

I have some viruses on my computer, (I have AVG so they are in the vault)

But I was wondering where the possibly could have come from.

My main computer activities include creating digital artwork, browsing deviantart.com,

playing flash games on addictinggames.com and miniclip.com,

browsing yahoo and yahoo answers, and watching videos on youtube.com.

Note-I do not go on any 'bad' websites EVER.

My only thought is that maybe 'stumbleupon' gave me a virus,

(for those of you that do not know of it, it is a toolbar you download that when you click the 'stumble' button, it takes you too a random web page, submitted by other stumpleupon members)

What are some other ways to get computer viruses?

Answer 1

They are caused by malicious individuals.

They come from: email, email attachments, web site visitations, files friends might give you, commercial software packages, and etc.

Stumble Upon is fun, but you're letting someone else direct you to a site and you don't know if they're good or bad.

No matter how you cut it, your activity on the computer has allowed them in.  You just have to determine which of your actions do allow them in and then don't do them any more.

Answer 2

I highly recommend getting the yahoo toolbar as it protects against pretty much every virus and is absolutely free. Also it is updated daily so all new viruses will be caught. It can be downloaded here.

http://www.fileforumz.com/downloads/file...

I hope this helps you with your virus problem!

Answer 3

Stumbleupon may have sent you to a bad web site.  You should also be careful when you open your E-mail.  Do not open any mail unless you know who it is from.

Ed

Answer 4

They are not random like real viruses they are

purposely written by sick people not sick physically but sick in the head that think it is funny to destroy other peoples computers

or it gives them some sort of power or something

by looking at these random sites and downloading you can let these sickos into your computer.

Answer 5

From yahoo answers

Answer 6

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