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Janish Khanna used a pen drive to copy files from his friend’s laptop to his office computer. Soon his computer started abnormal functioning. Sometimes it would restart by itself and sometimes it would stop different applications running on it. Which of the following options out of (i) to (iv), would have caused the malfunctioning of the computer? Justify the reason for your chosen option: 

(i) Computer Virus 

(ii) Spam Mail 

(iii) Computer Bacteria 

(iv) Trojan Horse

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(i) Computer virus

Reason Computer virus can spread through external media such as CDs, pen drive etc. It is designed to infect the host program and gain control over the system without the owner’s knowledge.

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