A virus in computer memory is less dangerous than a virus in hand disk because i

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A virus in computer memory is less dangerous than a virus in hand disk because if it is in the memory it cannot be on hard disk, and memory is volatile so this virus will disappear as soon as the computer is switched off. is more dangerous than a virus in hard disk because if it is in the memory then it is already running on your computer and could have done the damage. is same dangerous than a virus in hard disk because it is running whether it is in memory or in hard disk. All program on hard disk or memory are running all the time. is actually in CPU registers.

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Second option is correct. This is because every program in hard disk isn't running. The virus may not be active. But if it is in memory, then it is active. And it can copy itself to harddisk also. So, the volatility is not an advantage.

So, virus in computer memory is more dangerous than virus in hard disk.

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