Sentence examples for infected files from inspiring English sources

This prevents editing, and is designed to help prevent virus infections on your computer from infected files.

(Because computers might have three or more infected files, the estimated number of machines infected so far is 60,000).

Then, assess the extent of the infection and the damage, and remove the virus by deleting all infected files.

Unfortunately, users can install ransomware themselves, either by downloading infected files or by running files that arrive in phishing emails.

The program has proliferated quickly, with the number of infected files doubling in the last three weeks, Mr. Cavit said.

If the systems hit by the attack are backed up properly, the infected files can be junked with minimal loss.

The web seems a different place than in August 2001, when the "Code Red" (or "Nimda") virus ravaged the web – automatically infecting Windows servers, seeking out more to infect and putting an infected file onto webpages so that any machine reading it with Internet Explorer 5 would also be infected.

A prompt appears on the screen to prevent a user from opening an infected file, said Matthew Price, group product manager for Microsoft Office software.

Eventually, an infected file would be moved, typically on a floppy disk, to another machine where the virus could spread.

While most computer viruses and worms have required users to click on an infected file, the MSBlast program was perhaps the first to come to widespread attention that could infect computers without users' doing anything at all.

If you can't do that with the antivirus software, examine the infected file's properties to find out the last user or computer to make changes to the file — this will tell you where the infection originated.