PRODUCTIVITY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISES: EFFECT OF COMPUTER VIRUS INFECTION ON FILES

This study is carried out to evaluate the effect of computer virus infection of files and productivity of business enterprises. Chi-square test, tables, graphs, percentage and other simple statistical tools were used in the analysis of the data collated. The findings show that virus infection has effect on productivity of business enterprise. The magnitude of the effect depends on installation or uninstallation of anti-virus software on computer system. The study recommends that business enterprise owners should make sure that their computers run antivirus software; this software must be updated regularly as new virus appears daily; files should be regularly backed up in case the computer becomes infected, that way valuable data would not be lost.