stackyFACTSDespite causing massive global panic, viruses are basically just incredibly hostile pieces of mail. Lacking any internal metabolic machinery to generate their own energy, they are entirely inert bundles of rogue code that do absolutely nothing until they violently crash into a functioning cell.
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