Viruses don’t just infect the human body. It also comes with different strains that could infect computers and the whole system which could lead to business shutdown. Cybercriminals follow the mechanism of action of biological viruses that replicate and spread. So how to computers get virus?
Viruses in the IT world uses email and webpages as its mode of transmission. When you get an email with a virus attached and you clicked on it, the infection starts. It could clog up mail servers and other parts of the system thereby slowing down all operations. As a result, some processes may need to be shut down, temporarily or permanently, until that virus is eliminated.