Next week I will be putting in a computer at work, that will be using the same AOL system at home...I will be using all the same programs as I have at home... Question: If I should somehow get a virus on one unit, would it automatically spread to the sister computer , or be limited to the one.???
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The only way that you can catch a virus on one computer & have it migrate to the second is if you have them both networked together or if you somehow or another happen to share the infected file from the first computer with the second. If they are two seperate entities, I doubt very much if the virus can migrate from one computer to the second. I had 3 computers setup in a network over a year ago and 1 of them got a virus which subsequently spread to the other 2. My 4th computer was not hooked up @ the time to the network & it was ok. I actually used the 4th computer to disinfect the other 3.... not a very pleasant job.... took me almost a week to get everything working correctly.
