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Can a computer virus spread to another computer in the same house?

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Lets say one computer has a virus & the other does not can the infected computer transfer the virus to another computer in the same home network?

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5 Responses to “Can a computer virus spread to another computer in the same house?”

foxefire_120032000 says:

July 13, 2009 at 6:46 am

Hello Sammy, the answer is ‘No’ as computer viruses and other malicious program spread from computer to computer by either downloading, opening, and installing programs that has the viruses, worms, trojan horses, etc. I am networking in my home with 2 other computers, one is a laptop and the others are desktops, one of the desktop computer one had a serious virus where it had to be taken to the shop to get it removed twice, while the laptop and the other desktop had no problems. You each has its own antivirus program installed and 2 with a store bought antivirus program and one with the Free version, it were the free version that got infected, not saying that it were because of the free version because the one that is installed is real good, but it were
‘Not’ keep updated with the latest updates or scan often. So to make a long story even longer (smile) As long as you don’t download, install or open any programs that you don’t know about or who it came from and keep each computer up-to-date with the latest updates and run a full scan at least once a week then no matter how many computer you run in a single house and are networking together they will be protected.
Jordan says:

December 1, 2009 at 7:55 am

Foxefire is very wrong. Viruses can indeed spread across a network. Not all of them do this but there are some that do such as winguard, or openaserv. Systems are particularly vulnerable if you have open shares or execute code from an account on one system that has administrative authority over the other systems on your network.
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