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How many times has your computer crashed? For many of us it’s probably more times than we would have liked. Even with years of research and advancement in the field of operating systems one would be lead to think that someone would have gotten the ease of use/functionality formula figured out by now. Unfortunately, no company has the all-purpose answer right now and while there are many reasons for this I’ll be discussing one in particular, viruses, with a particular focus on the need for anti-virus software. The best place to begin would be to define the two sides of the coin here, the virus and the ant-virus. In my research on the topic I found a rather succinct definition that describes a virus as a file that holds “capability to produce copies of itself (not exact bytewise replicas) and to incorporate them into computer networks and/or files, system areas of computers, and other execu