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what is the most common way people's computers get infected by a virus
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Answer 1

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Viruses then spread to other disk drives and machines when the infected files are received in downloads from websites, email attachments, shared drives or when carried in files on physical media, such as USB drives or—in the early days—floppy disks ...

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