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Glossary - V
Veronica
An add-on extension used in conjunction with gopher. Veronica helps to narrow
a gopher search by searching indexes of all the titles of documents in gopher servers
worldwide. You can then do a keyword search on this index. Jughead is another such
extension.
Virus
A software program written to deliberately cause damage to computer systems.
A virus can wipe out the data on your hard disk, corrupt your system software, duplicate
itself until thereís no room left on your computer, and even lock you out of your
own computer. A virus can get into your machine through a floppy disk, a network,
or a software download from another computer. You should scan any software you download
for viruses.
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