Question

are harmless computer enthusiasts
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Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

Viruses (and other malware) are harmful for many reasons such as:

Monitor activity and steal sensitive data like credit card info, name, date of birth, social security numbers among other things. This can lead to identity theft which takes years to recover from.

Damage files on your computer. This is very common cryptoware infections which encrypt (lock) your files in exchange for a ransom payment usually via money order or Bitcoin transfer (and these are unrecoverable). This is why keeping a backup of files is very important.

Slowing down a machine and making it unusable. I find that computers with infections have slower connections to the Internet (because of the virus sending junk traffic), slower response time opening, closing and using programs and freezing at or after startup (and at shutdown too). To solve this usually it is needed to backup data and reinstall the operating system and other programs.